PLEDGE TO MY STARS

PLEDGE TO MY STARS
I will find you
You will find me
Through the written pages that define these paths
I never got to crush the walls in which my sacred books are buried
I was to....with that single key that opens the walls apart without sign of a key hole
I repeat this mantra 'when the morning breaks us.....never forget my name'
Burdens of the embraced spirits...And a prayer to meet merciful ghosts too will ring out prayer bells full of sacrifice.

These are the corridors of our souls
Calling to the hidden chambers that can only be open by the word 'pen'
Let me see the light behind our eyes...
Teach me the rhythm of your blood
Secrets that the bodies separated from souls we crave to discover.

I have evolved in nights of sorrow
Mended by the tiny speck of a hidden feeling,
On those tiny paths the wind made for us
Where leaves dance upon the entrance of our feet
Pictures frame our desires
In names conjured from the remotest zones of our hearts
Ah, the weight of ghosts ransack our minds
But the pen, holds us in this dancefloor
A fountain of ink that grew in timid smiles,
A nib of reciprocation
And I've wanted to write our feeling in these
Forgotten memoirs of scrolls that hold our breath.
We wind up in flowers picked from cold gardens
Thriving against storms in the rhyme of our eyes
My dear, I want to go beyond the aspect of life
I am tangled ... Only immensly and deeply antagonized by the absence of you.
Hold my hand... For
Everything is different... How easily it is to cry but hard to laugh..
But I am held in want of thy smile..
A smile that emerges when the pen dances.
We shall break the tides to quench our thirst..
Only then shall we mingle in our eyes.

We find ourselves in the blush of the sea
When we scoop the lost letters
The ones that formed the moon's brilliance
Written on walls that resembled satin pages
We brushed to reveal the child of the moon
I relish at mantras we made in hymns
Only sang in the choir of our souls.
Help me find the silence in the raving waters of uncertainity
Help me write the love that blooms inside us
Help me finish this ache that has me sighing
Help me love you endlessly and in all passion untamed
Help me hold this pen and let it write of us
Help me serenade the moon
If only these will shine our lives
If only to remind us that challenges will ferment our lives
Help me shout atop hills that it's us against the world
If that is the only way...we shall follow..
Let us learn to find the voices of our souls..
We couldn't stay from each other
And that is how love acquires its language.

FRAUGHT WITH TRIBULATIONS

FRAUGHT AND TRIBULATIONS
Oh I cry...for the deal so signed
Stop breaths to see dawn
Signatures and thoughts
Forehead wounds to whole visage
Letting out a drop of blood and water
Loved ones of the sun couldn't see
Blond hair covering misery
Wildness of the heart that conceals pain

A glance at the obituaries
Golden names celebrating a life well lived
Open gates let amber fire of the wide road
Bolt-hit back to reality and faded godly scenes
Chant of prayers and daydreams
To find the truth of dark
Retrace of footprints and blood thirst thoughts
Echoes of this name....from a 'keeper's' whisper.

Vengeance to scare away the bat
Pity this lone soul in the dark
Skin burns in the moonlight
Ripping apart to ashes in despair
Scent of a lost damsel in the woods
Need and urge from the 'keeper's' voice
A small bite of a scraggy being
To life. To disdain.

Even the little beads of this bracelet
Felt the venom of these words and voices
Hot spurts of lava melted from rocks
The crater that will hold back this misery
Consuming my inner chi
Of the tears shed for a fake comeback
I knock on the doors again.

Soft sparks deep inside
Series of my failures. Episodes of my missions.
A relight of the blue fire...
Singing this damn lordship
Twenty-four-seven, Three-sixty-five
Still a Kobold who lives within
In all these thralldom
You'll find peace. The fealty will reign.

(FRAUGHT AND TRIBULATIONS)
                Adhiambo Agoro.

MY DARKLAND

MY DARKLAND
Pages that needed an eraser
Sanity that pleaded for a mind
Of weak wires and lines
That led to broken connections
I saw darkness and murky shadows
Of ghosts and spirit winds

I still read the writings
On the broken walls
Of the cracks I fit in a little
To build a name and a life
Couldn't get a color from the spectra

Faded strength
I ride through cities
Daylight through hometowns
To dark clouds and dull stars
A reverse of my wheels
To pick up the sacred past

I will unkiss the lips
Read from the back pages
Start from sunset to sunrise
And sing lyrics in rewind
Empty this pocket of wicked man thought

All's that's lost and shaken
Will be found and taken
I will bring the dead child to be born
Let it feel air and its heart beat
In its empty house to suckle future into it

"I left the stage in the middle of my song...
Mockingbird's message of a tune not heard of
And chirps of other fellows
I see...eyes full of disdain"

My Cathedral collapsed!
That morning broke me
Am sorry Mama
I could come back on bended knees
I beseech thee
And for the faults in my stars

Holy One
I would entreat for a weak soul
Between rocks and icebergs
Sunken eyes that don't see faith
Fragile heart that don't feel pain

And as I hold this blunt pencil
Bleeding words I still hold in
The color of my blood is all I see
I break the chains
I see the sniper
We both want to scare away the dark
I smile. I smile. I smile.

            (MY DARKLAND)
                            ADHIAMBO AGORO

`AXE CHILE'

`AXE CHILE'
I won't turn to stop
Though...
My skin's pale and grey
Am out in the rain...
I feel the touch of my soul
I stiffen my upper lip to the pinch
A pinch painful to wake me up..
My book is stained...with black ink
Of isolated  burial grounds

You can't see my sparks fly...
Hole in my pocket,hole in my head
In those holes there's hope to carry on
My scope has been narrowed
I ain't a dingy shebeen!!!
I sink in my lake of apathy
With no feeling of sympathy
Getting dark in this heart of mine
Where there's no hope with me to dine
"Guilty feet...no rhythm  to the tune"

    Oh friend... This isn't an enigma
    Or anything to cause you trauma
    Backbreaking determination just...
         "...Don't forget my name..."

                           ( `AXE CHILE' )
                          Adhiambo Agoro

LOOK AT ME..CHILD

LOOK AT ME...CHILD
Look up to the sun
The stars and moon of the sky
Let the breeze feel the smoothness
Of your pretty visage..
Dry your tears...Of all the years
You can only have the sunshine after the rain
Run through the forest as you used to
Retrace your footprints...
Seek that silver needle
That you lost in the dark
Ears on the ground...To hear the stampede of the hopeful kind
Don't listen to the old song.... That old echo that's calling out for you
Dance to the angels tune of glory...
That of Michael...
Look at you....Look at me
At us...Smile again...

          Adhiambo Agoro

My Whisper...

MY WHISPER
I look with great admiration
At the woman...beneath her beautiful
As she smiles at her own
Blood of her veins
Kisses on her forehead from it
Suing her emotions with that
Of the little one
Raise it with affection and hope
Handing it to its godmother
To teach it the laws of the land
And let it to the other side
Of the world that awaits,
Humankind  respect and honour,
Will let it sit on its throne
The mother looks down from above
Watching over her own
Whom she will hold in her arms again
And watch the mystery of a little legend
In a little book...of untold tales,
Spirit of them will protect their dynasty
To reign. To thrive.

  

TO THE DARKER KIND

TO THE DARKER KIND
I walk on that sand
Across the ocean's shores
Sorting some of the baggage left
A queen in a kingdom of complete desertion
Feel the rush of blood to my head...
Stark winds against me..
Thoughts crystallize like snowballs hit against stone..
Looking back at the world,
My freedom's faded...rights wasted.
Stories in my eyes and 'years'
Of  lullabies and goodbyes

My face looking at the setting sun
The night has had a piece of me too
My dead man silence...for ages
Circumstances left me only waiting
Oh heaven give me a sign
Help me dig a deep ditch
To burry all or some of these
To peel off and surrender
I lay on the altar of sacrifice
Cremating my thoughts
This fire would burn...all of me
The rain would wash my ashes away..
Of dead innocence

              TO THE DARKER KIND
                  (AGORO VIVIAN)
"I will rise with my soul...Wake me up inside"