Poetry Series
FREEMAN DAVID REMI
SOCRATES
- poems -
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FREEMAN DAVID REMI SOCRATES (20 07 1990)
BORN AT THE ISLAND OF LAGOS, FREEMAN REMI DAVID IS A NIGERIAN
WHO HAIL FROM THE WESTERN SIDE OF NIGERIA. DAVID WAS BORN ON 20
JULY 1989 BY LAIDE FREEMAN. LOST HIS FATHER AT A TENDER AGE OF 5.
DAVID MOVED TO WARRI TO LIVE WITH HIS GRAND PARENTS WHERE HE
FUTHER HIS EDUCATION. DAVID ATTENDED FLOCK OF CHRIST PRIMARY
SCHOOL AND LATER SWITCHED TO QUALITY PREP PRIMARY SCHOOL.
DAVID WENT BACK TO LAGOS BEFORE FINALLY LEAVING WITH HIS
PARENTS TO IBADAN WHERE HE WENT TO LIBERTY SECONDARY
COMMERCIAL ACCEDAMY. DAVID RETURN TO HIS GRANDPARENTS AT
DELTA STATE WHERE HE FINALISED HIS SECONDARY EDUCATION AT
CLASSICAL INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE. DAVID IS CURRENTLY IN THE DELTA
STATE STUDYING UNIVERSITY PHILOSOPHY. DAVE HAVE A BROTHER
MICHAEL AND TWO SISTERS NAME FAITH AND PEACE. DAVE MOBILE IS
07069186181.DAVE CURRENTLY LIVE WITH HIS STEP DAD AND MUM AT
DELTA STATE. DAVID LOVE FOR POETRY STARTED WHEN HE WAS 6. THEN
HE WROTE 'SORROWS OF MOTHERHOOD'.
Works:
THE PUNISHER
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CHANGES
Change is inevitable in life but men has denied this fact.
My nation is stagnant and corrupt.
My world is permanent and egregious
If all I got is time then I cant act timid.
A life without a change is death.
Sellasie change Africa why cant I change the world.
We have all patronize permanence and derelict change.
Good is going and Man remains behind because we avoid change.
Of what profit will permanence give men that they jettison change in such.
What man call change is just 'A much-ado about nothing'.
I am changing and I am taking no man with me so they wont hinder me.
If you need change then you need no man.
FREEMAN DAVID REMI SOCRATES
4
FOR FOOTBALL
Gave our society peace and togetherness.
What a phenomenal in my age
As profitable as the earth.
Armando is my vision. Pele is my future but football is my goal.
If I would have a son it will be Messi the messiah of soccer.
God bless Soccer
FREEMAN DAVID REMI SOCRATES
5
Forgiveness
Yellow is my colour of forgiveness
forgiveness is what keeps humanity from extinction.
we all live today in an unforgiven world
forgiveness makes you feel comfortable
So forgive and forget.
FREEMAN DAVID REMI SOCRATES
6
Good Morning To Morning
Whoever wants good must respect the morning
whoever need a goodday must have a good morning
Morning is the mother of the day
Morning is the root of hardwork.
Morning is a time to make hay
morning is the time to gain experience of which
you will use in experimentingyour future
in order to expect a good result.
Respect the morning and tell us your result
disregard the morning and we shall you
your returns.
Good morning only comes to determaned people, people who are ready to explore it.
If you want to have a good morning, respect it
for I have repect for my morning and
I have experience an illustrious returns.
Good morning to my morning so he may do me good.
FREEMAN DAVID REMI SOCRATES
7
INEVITABLE GIFT
Trouble is our only friend and he's back again.
Makes our body older than it really it's
No one's got much to say in this town.
then may be trouble is the only way is down.
Down, down.
As strong as we were, tender we will go.
God will be watching us breathing for the last time.
A song for our heart, but when it is quiet,
We know what it means and we'll all go home.
we'll all go you home.
If we had wings we would fly away,
And another day God will give us some.
Trouble is the only way is down.
Down, down.
As strong as you were, tender you go.
I'm watching you breathing for the last time.
A song for your heart, but when it is quiet,
I know what it means and I'll carry you home.
I'll carry you home.
FREEMAN DAVID REMI SOCRATES
8
JAILER
It is with great sorrow I put waters behind walls
It is with great depression I obstruct the flow of water.
I am a prisoner also though proving to be a bird.
They wear clothes I wear
they see walls I see
they hear news I hear.
All my future they know.
They are even more of a bird than me cuz most of them will leave but I remain.
I see nothing but irons and whirling and grumbling every second but they see the
future
A future where they will all be free.
I want to be a jailer no more but a prisoner.
FREEMAN DAVID REMI SOCRATES
9
Lady Afrika
I have wandered in the widerness
I have swimm the pacific
looking for a black jewel
looking for a worth of human breathe
I have fought fiercely and fearlessly
just to meet this black jewel.
Lady of black
shine forth your glooming rays so I
may see you.
Forest grumble
ocean disturbs
all because of absence.
Lady Afrika,
here we shall stand till your presence befall us.
Dedicated to Emo Accidental
FREEMAN DAVID REMI SOCRATES
10
Letter To The World
You cant stop me, no you cant
for I have made up my mind on this to join my father
elders in their abode.
You cant stop me now let me go or are you jealous
of my misfortunes or should I be older than the phoenix?
arent you afraid of this world.
No man but all of you are responsible for my
despair life.
Should I sow corn and reap coconut?
should I work hard and still serve my serfs?
I am blind and searching for the days my father elders will me.
When at last they will call me to sit by them in their peacefull grave
Ihave become what the world want me to become
and I hope they become what they I envisage for them
for my mystery may be your sacrifice
for my death may bring your wants.
Dedicated to my Mum
FREEMAN DAVID REMI SOCRATES
11
MY HOME
Its Christmas and I haven't seen my home
Its late and I have no home to rest my head
If only I have somewhere to lay my head.
My home of peacefull coexistence
Only if you would be my home.
Only if this could be our home
Only if this could be our world.
No place that far when my home is with me.
My home
FREEMAN DAVID REMI SOCRATES
12
My Madness
Walking down and waking up
a madman lives in my memory,
madness as a result of poetry
poetry has create a madness in me and also has this uncrowned witty made me.
Madmen eat dirt, I could eat dirt if I am bored
poetry is my source of madness
poetry is a key to my existence.
God gives me live literature takes it
and poetry keeps it.
Some are destined to be psychologist
some are craving to be zoologist but I'm determined
and fully ready to be a literati.
Poetry gives me a chance to reflect on
those I love.
Poetry has made me sin
I have idolise the son of shakespear called poetry.
POETRY, poetry we all the literati hail thee
for your popularity has made us.
If poetry is a nation I will be the leader
If poetry is hell I will be a dweller.
If only men was not blindfolded to see the beauty you potray
if thou want to come again then
come in a goddess form
for we are craving to adore you, .
FREEMAN DAVID REMI SOCRATES
13
PERSEVERANCE
Now you can wait your whole life wondering
When it's gonna come or where it's been.
You may have got your heart broken
A few times in the past
Never last strong as it used to,
Don't feel as good as it used to (before)
And all the things you used to say,
Things you used to do, went right out the door
Oh no more, will you be the one
That's what you tell everyone around you
But you know they've heard it all before
What more can you say
When love won't let you, walk away
And you can't help who you love
And you find yourself giving it away
When you think you're in love
Now you can wait your whole life tryna change
What the fear from what it's been
You may have put your whole life into a man
Loving what you thought that could've been.
notice when you change
When you don't feel as good as you used to (before)
And everything you used to say,
Everything you used to do clear right out the door
Oh no more, will you be the one
That's what you tell everyone around you
But you know they've heard it all before
What more can you say
When love won't let you, walk away
And it can't help who it loves
And you find yourself giving it away
When you think you're in love
I wanna be the one who you believe
In your heart is sent from
There's a piece of me who leaves when you gone
Because you're sent from.
FREEMAN DAVID REMI SOCRATES
14
Prayer
what happens to a dettered dream?
will you pray for it or forget it.
Pray for me and I will pray for you
pray for the wicked too
pray for the genius and the not so smart
who with their heart still touch our hearts
pray for those who will destroy all the baby girls and
boy with their evil toys
pray for the robbers pray for the theives
pray for the loss of our beliefs
pray for those who can no longer pray
pray for the profit of another day.
My father has gone from here
those I love from yesteryears.
As I grow old and move towards sleep
releasing pain I have held so deep,
deeper than the soul regreted.
Memories I have yet to forget.
Oh hope my love dont leave me yet
your lip speak softly of the light as I move humbly into night
pray for your country
pray for your loved ones
pray for forgiveness.
FREEMAN DAVID REMI SOCRATES
15
TESTIMONY
Remember those walls I built
Well, baby they're tumbling down
And they didn't even put up a fight
They didn't even make a sound
I found a way to let you in
But, I never really had a doubt
Standing in the light of your halo
I got my angel now
It's like I've been awakened
Every rule I had you breakin'
It's the risk that I'm taking
I ain't never gonna shut you out!
Everywhere I'm looking now
I'm surrounded by your embrace
Baby, I can see your halo
You know you're my saving grace
You're everything I need and more
It's written all over your face
Baby, I can feel your halo
Pray it won't fade away
Hit me like a ray of sun
Burning through my darkest night
You're the only one that I want
Think I'm addicted to your light
I swore I'd never fall again
But this don't even feel like falling
Gravity can't begin to pull me back to the ground again
It's like I've been awakened
Every rule I had you breakin'
It's the risk that I'm taking
I'm never gonna shut you out!
Everywhere I'm looking now
I'm surrounded by your embrace
Baby, I can see your halo
You know you're my saving grace
You're everything I need and more
It's written all over your face
Baby, I can feel your halo
I pray it won't fade away
FREEMAN DAVID REMI SOCRATES
16
Time
If all we got is time then why waiting
If all we got is time then I am sure we wont experience
obscolecency.
But all we got aint time so we make the very
best out of the little we got.
Timeless men are aimless men and
time conscious men are great men.
Time is God
FREEMAN DAVID REMI SOCRATES
17
To be or not...
If I am black they say white is good
I came from a woman they say man is better
I choose to be timid they say loquacious men easily succeed.
To be or not...
Our wandering feet has been a cynosure of our sufferings.
If richness gives life I would die thousand times.
They said the world is a evolving but I am revolving.
To be or not to be...
Haille went in one high mourning so I want to be.
LUTHER went with a lethal weapon that I dont want to be.
Are you to be or not?
FREEMAN DAVID REMI SOCRATES
18
Welcoming Tommorrow
Sometimes the things we run from finds us.
I believe in what we can achieve in the world
the future is clear and good
every air I breathe is of hope and freedom
I forsee our misfortune taking a turnover.
I promise everyone a better tommorrow
though I'm not God but I'm is son
the future will console us of our todays failure.
We have watch our fellow die of hunger
we have heard our fellow scream to death
but I envisage a good tommorrow.
Whatever we will be we will be
ours is to work hard and not to see the future
If failure is yours tommorrow then you have
failed to work hard today.
Dont let my prophesy envisage you with laziness.
The bright future is a LAND, NATION, EMPIRE
that recquires a determination passport, a dtermined citizens
and a determined emperor and empresses.
How will you welcome this tommorrow?
what will you present as your passport? .
You may make hay while the sun shine while you still work
during the moonlight period.
you can bring sand to the beach
you cant barb an absent head.
FREEMAN DAVID REMI SOCRATES
19
WISHES
Only if its dark
Only if you were here
Only if we had it all.
If all I got to do is wish then lets make hundreds.
I did not wish this to happen
I only wish it all didnt happen.
I wish you could give me another chance
I wish I could right all our wrongs.
I wish all colours could be black
I wish all humans could be fallible.
I wish I saw Marcus Garvey.
I wish I had a wife.
I wish I knew God better
I wish I wasn't born.
FREEMAN DAVID REMI SOCRATES
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