Freedom

Give us us free!
Whence came the word struggle?
Whence came the word pain?
Whence came the word abuse?
Whence came the word exploitation?
…Freedom…freedom!
What is it, where is it…. how do we find it…how do i find it?
What is it worth…a mans life…two…maybe three..perhaps a million?
Is it an illusion, a carrot dangling on a stick for abused and abusers [...]

Familiarity…or the lack there-of

Does familiarity breed contempt?
Does ME knowing YOU more tire me…exhaust you?
Does it all make me…love you a lil less…make your love for me falter…by just that much?
Does it eat away at my heart…distort the rhythm that beats in tandem with your heart?
I have to ask…one question…one thought…I wonder!
Is it at all possible to be familiar [...]

The Lovely Predicament of Life

To live is to love, for what else is life worth?
What is life to a dazzling butterfly that has just emerged from its chrysalis and has but one gay hour to live and love?
What is life to the colorful songbird as it sits on a meticulously chosen branch composing verse after verse to woe that [...]

thoughts…

“When a man fails once, he must push harder.
When that man fails twice, he has to re-think his strategy.
However, when that man fails again…and again…and again…well, then its time for some big honest questions!”
(Maliq W Muro ©)

Upendo (sonnet)

Lying in bed with her soul so tortured,
She looks like a rose stripped off its petals,
Like a beautiful smile without dimples,
Like a once flamboyant bird captured.
Her heart cries for love for it is ruptured,
Her agony, with every beat triples,
Her eyes, with every sob, fill with ripples.
Her painful heart bleeds, for it is punctured.
Once again, love [...]

Unsatisfied

One may deduce that the bringing into reality of one’s goals and aims promotes satisfaction.
This deduction proves fraud.
For I have clambered up the ladder of academic achievement step by step until the very summit of it.
By this, my mother and others I have induced pride in me.
I have endeavored hard to overcome, topple, or come [...]

Trials and Tribulations

Life is full of trying trials and tribulations I say,
Trials and tribulations that task a still budding young man’s endurance to the full,
That force potentially valuable souls to attempt suicide as a gateway to a better life,
That allow dark forces to shadow, and eventually smother any last wisp of hopeful light,
That render all but the [...]

Power

Might, strength, control, autocracy.
All these things come under that word.
It is a two faced collection of letters,
A corruptor of minds which brings pain and suffering when abused,
A bringer of discipline, love, and happiness when treated with care.
It is a craving every man endures,
One our dreams never fail to conjure.
Its capture is the mission of so [...]

Love

Love is not just an emotion…it is the emotion,
our emotion,
the in extinguishable emotion that drums again and again inside us , pulsating like an ever lasting heart beat, driving us to achieve the greatest and best of us.
That is, but Love.
(Maliq Walter Muro©)

Life

Life could be a pre planned affair,
Or maybe an intricate web of love and despair.
It could be a malicious web woven by fate,
Or simply the small portion of a heavenly debate.
Maybe it’s a manifestation of an alien vision,
Or Mother Nature’s product of continuous cell division.
Is life something more…something bigger and greater.
Or is it thin and [...]