League Day 15; AYOBAMI AYANFEMI vs IBRAHIM YUSUF

I'm currently in a dilemma either to leave home or not. Surely, if I leave today, sooner than later would I be back in my Father's land, cause there's no place like home, but still I want to leave!

Two poets this moment would be convincing me to either leave this land and seek for greener pastures in a foreign place or I stay.

Who wins my heart and who doesn't?... Enjoy this duel!
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Good luck to the wordlords.. LET THE BATTLE BEGIN!

THEME: SOJOURN

AYOBAMI AYANFEMI

TITLE: When will I return home.

Mother sent me as her daughter to be slave for riches,

Father blessed my feet and hands.

Brother waved me bye

Sister cried on my shoulder.

For am going on a journey

For am going as a sacrificial lamb.

Am only fifteen,but old in mind.

Am the strong girl,rare in kind.

Sojourn to a far away land

For survival and riches.

This my family jointly bind.

Master mistress beat me in the day

She feeds me at night

Where their won't be light

To feel my agony and pain.

Remember my child,all for riches.

Mama told me before leaving home.

Now I have money to buy loaf and fishes

Without leaving crumbles and bones.

Will I still go to that filthy home

Where rags are in the name of clothes

And we make joyful cry of what we don't have in wardrobe.

Am now on the minstrel seat

Where I control all the country bill

And command the king of a kingdom

To bow and worship my slavery feet.

When will I return home?

When will I go to the parent that never for once called me when I was going through hell in the hands of the beast?

Now the beast is gone,

Am married to her master.

Now am rich and comfortable,

When will I return home??

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Chosen Star

IBRAHIM YUSUF

TITLE; Whenever I Sojourn to Her Land:

Whenever I sojourn to her land;

I taste the pure

sweetness of love

that I wish

"the end" didn't exist. 

Whenever I sojourn to her land;

her being

inflames love in me

that I wish "the end"

had no end!

Whenever I sojourn to her land;

 I wish

forever grew there

the way love does

so I'll stay beyond "the end"

enjoying the sweetness of love.

© Ibrahim Yusuf