League Day 29: EMMANUEL KARIBI vs IBRAHIM YUSUF

Live: EMMANUEL KARIBI vs IBRAHIM YUSUF

This duel is dedicated to Africans who joined suit to the doom of transgender.

NOTE;
1) The judges decision takes 70% of the judgement while well wishes and lovers of poetry votes takes 30%.

2) Upon no circumstance must any of the above mentioned poets vote.

3) The contestants are urged to invite friends to Vote for them using the comment section of this post. No rule exempts you from canvassing for votes.

5) Voting lasts for 18 hours from commencement of Duel.

6) Vote using I VOTE POEM 1 or I VOTE POEM 2

7) Results would be uploaded briefly after the closure of votes.

Good luck to the wordlords.. LET THE BATTLE BEGIN!

THEME: LOST 

EMMANUEL KARIBI OBUALA

Title: I KNOW NOT ME ANYMORE

As a woman i came into the world

emotional, tender, femininely

my heart was mine from birth

with it i grew up through the ages

felt every feminine emotion and

bestried life.

but soonest in no time after i was

tenaged, life dealt me a cruel hand;

i was poked in my foundation,

yelled at and incessantly abused,

many times, more than words can

narrate, for naturally being a woman.

on the edge of it all, in adulthood

i realized i was disadvantaged

because of my sex, i am a woman

and so i am meant to be surbodinated, misused and hurt by the opposite sex.

they say i am a weaker sex, feeble in my very nature, and was given

no plcae in the constituency of society

my place was to suffer the whims of men, i was hurt, sorrowed and broken

until i learnt of a science of how to become a masculine god

i found out i could be a man too

and suffer these pestilences of womanhood no more.

and so for it i went and was transgendered into a man

my privates gave way for a man to br planted in me.

at the time, it felt good, atlast i would be called a weaker sex no more

as a man i will be seen now and will be intermingled with them that be

'O i will be elevated from this feminine disadvantage' i retorted to myself and become an artificial man

but now here am i, a woman in a man's muscles, without a sense of personhood

only that from a woman i've become a man

alas, how do men think? i tried i to be one

but the feat ain't working out

my heart remains a woman

my head too, but my body assumes the office of a man.

Oh! i am lost, i know not who i am anymore, other than i'm just a human

of what gender i do not know;

i'm a woman, i'm a man, maybe even both, cos' i know not who i am anymore.

Copyright © EMMANUEL KARIBI OBUALA - 2017

IBRAHIM YUSUF

TITLE; For the Transsexual:

You sell guidance for lost

by removing the sacred identity,

planted by God!

You vitiate your purity,

by being what you are not.

What is the burden of being what you are?

Don't you feel ashamed,

for changing what is unchanged?

Bury yourself in shame!