Is it Christmas

Is it Christmas

Or just another public holiday

As I look at the smiles

As I see the gifts exchanged

And pass mine along

I ask again

Are we just free from work?

And having some time out for the year

Have we missed the point?

Or are we enjoying partially, a full package

Why is it that this feels like the best of periods?

Why do we all feel happy?

I guess it’s the weather

Or maybe the aura. . .

But who is the cause of this aura

who 's fault is all the joy?

I guess again that it confirms the saying . . .

That you fill my heart with joy.

Weather the world likes it or knows it

You bring joy to the world

And not only in carols

Yeah! Its Christmas

Its your day and I’m happy

I’m happy for life

For food and gifts

For Salvation and redemption

For the holiday and the cold weather

Thank you for Christmas.

I'm older today

I’m older today and feel the decisions weighing down on me

I look at the future and feel for the past

Trying to hold onto something and yet move forward

My heart isn’t heavy but my thoughts carry a weight

I want to know what to do

I want to see what would happen

I want to understand more and be more understood

At times I though growing up meant I’ll be able to stand tall on my own but the more I advance, the more I understood that it means me being more dependent. How I envy those who can come home every night and have someone there to pour out the weight on. And she just knows what to say, do or undo that would make every bother of the last 10 hours vanish.

I’m older today and men its so cool and hot at the same time. I thank you God for the millions of blessings. I thank you for Her, Me, Cer.Go and the plans in my hand. I just need to say thanks.

Men I’m Older now and it rocks.

Please help me not smash it on the wrong rock

I need to by your grace, work these plans out

To get up and be for you, about

Thanks for the gift of yesterday

I’m sorry for the mistakes of Last year

I look unto you for tomorrow

That this timeline would be one of your favorite reels.

Thank you

. Opaluwah Akor

I miss you

In Every way I try to look at it, it just hurts. I miss you so much and wonder why. I doubt my motives many times . . . or let me say I tried doubting myself but it was futile. I tried pushing it away but it stayed. I tried writing but it came out wrong. So I decided to spill it out like this

I miss you dear friend

I miss our hangout

I miss our chit chat

I miss our chilling at your place

I miss playing with you

I miss driving with you

I miss texting with you

I miss joking with you

I miss telling you stuff

I miss talking about your boyfriend

I miss talking about my girlfriend

I miss talking about my crazy character

I miss making fun with you

I miss writing with you

I miss strolling with you

I miss window shopping with you

I miss confiding in you

I miss your lil’ secrets

I miss being built spiritually by you

I miss talking about God with you

I miss poking your dimples

I miss shaking your head

I miss scattering your hair

I miss tickling you.

Matter of Fact, I miss you.

. raQ

I need a new Tree

You told me not to touch
I honestly decided not to
Then I wanted to, then I needed to
My hands stretched and so I pointed the reason to her
I’m now stripped and clothed in sheep skin
You never intended for a lesser glory
But I called it fashion
I ought to be truly sorry
And I truly am
But I pointed away again
Because I have to look strong for her
I looked behind my direction of blame and saw u.
Looking down, Standing at our favorite spot
I couldn’t run to you
and talk all evening because I had to be a man
The Man for this woman you gave me
I have to be the man for her
I have to be the man for her. So I’ll take this bite
I’m sorry but can’t act it
I have shifted my eyes to her so to be a man for her
I stand here under this tree . . . No no no
Hide under this tree for her, from you
Because I made this lesser glory and what it comes with a point
Oh! I need a new tree.

One more thing I would ask

One more thing I would ask

For you to look at me

and smile a little more

make my moment with you

a moment that lives eternally.

One more thing I need from you

To be of great cheer

So I can feel the warmth

Your happiness brings

To me every where

One more thing I look forward to

A time with you again

To see your lovely smile

And feel your happiness

Make me feel so blessed

One more thing I desire to have

That you give me one more reason

To ask for one more thing

And another after another

Because of you, I can’t ever have enough.

What I would love to do

I would love you to play

Play with my hair

Play on my back

Roll about with me

I would love to dance

Slow and hold you close

Fast and spin you around

Funk and share the best laugh

I would love to walk with you

Down on the Quiet street

Race you on a long road

Hold your hand and come from the sunset

I would love to sit with you

On bar stools and store at you

On a couch, sunk in and close to you

On a park Bench: you head on my shoulder

I would love to look at you

Lost in thought of what we share

Looking deep to find what makes you tick

Living in the beauty of your moment

I would love to be with you

To play, to dance

To walk and to sit

To look, look deep…deep.

I love you!

I AM OF THE 6TH OF THE 82ND SONG

I AM OF THE 6th OF THE 82nd SONG

What have I done?

What have I created?

Who have I become?

What am I doing?

Have I misled others?

Or done things to hurt?

Have I loved enough?

Have I done more or less?

Have I created a me of your dreams?

A me you desire?

A me you deserve?

Or have I Created a me of Gods plan?

Who is this that is here before you?

Who is this looking into you light?

Who is this that stares out but sees in?

Who did your daughter turn into?

Am I her, that makes you smile

Or her that sits with you by you right hand

Am I her that emanates true worship

am I still that prized apple of your love

Though I stepped wrong sometimes

I have walked by grace dear father!

I have created a human mistake

but u saved me by Grace your through faith

I am here dear father

Your daughter bought by your blood

I am the her of the 31st proverb

her of the 31st of the 69th song

I am of the 6th of the 82nd Song

I am the daughter of the Most high

raQ

What I find

I look deep

And see little

On the surface I see much

On the inside I have much

I look deep inside

And find things

Not in words, figures or picture

I see a lot . . . a whole lot

I look deep and search deeper

Looking for you

For your approval

and in me I see

The fall from an Image

to a climb

A climb . . .

A climb

I reach deep

Deep in my soul and touch

No I taste you

I taste you and get drunk in the Euphoria

You came in and changed the taste

You changed the taste of me

The Taste I get

Now I can stare and see

See the thing

The things you put here

I taste you glory

I feel your presence

I hear you whisper

And listen to your shout

I sum it all

And my words are just . .

They are just not . . .

I say

My God

You are Magnificent

This I find in me!

raQ

THIS MY DEAR, IS WHERE I AM

THIS MY DEAR, IS WHERE I AM

My heart Longs for you

Coz in you

I Can’t hide my face

I Can’t hide my heart

I can’t hide my feelings.

You lay bare

The thoughts of my heart

And all my deep desires

You know

My worship is made of only this

Of only words

Of only groans

Of only tears and motions, dances. .and and and . . . .

My cry from a heart that has been . .

that has been forgiven

that has been saved

that has seen love

My soul I give to you

And this salvation

You offer me

I take. . .

I hold you my dear God

I hold your eyes

No . . . . you hold my stare

I’m either in awe of you

Or in awe of you

This my dear, is where I am

Opaluwah Akor

Faith and the Backup Plan

 Ok  . . .first off . . .I’m going to be as frank as I would be in splitting open this topic. That’s mainly because it bugged me so much at a time when I was regretting why I had not made a backup plan. . . 

Ok here is the what happened. . . I had to do some work for someone and the time was almost due. I had made all my payment and was ready to move on . . .And I had kicked into full throttle, Faith. . . I was just ready to take over or tackle any problem that wanted to pop up. It was at this time that the most important part of the whole plan fell open . . .What I had paid for was somehow (Unexplainably) lost in transit and no one knew where it was. The person I paid to was just not there. . .I practically was in that state of mind where your brain moves into the “. . You have been duped .  . . .) state. 

Now I wasn’t too concerned if I had been duped. All I was bothered about was that I had not planned ahead for such a set back and my first major delivery was going to fall apart. It was like I had no backup plan for my faith . . . then the question kicked in . . . . What is the Backup plan? I mean should I have faith and a backup plan? Or let me rephrase it this way . .

Does faith give room for a back-up plan. . .I mean in case things don’t go as planned.

Well I went for a YWAP (Youth With A Purpose) meeting and asked the question and then . . .  it was fully opened up (With the appropriate bible passages I must add . .) 

So lets do this. . .

WHAT IS FAITH?

Hey  . . .Faith is like believing in stuff u don’t see right? Or let me put it how it was in The King James Version of the bible:

Heb 11:1 

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 

Or According to The New Century Version (Makers of Biblezene – the coolest bible I have seen  . . . .Yep . . its like a magazine and so like undercover, you won’t even know you are carrying one.  . .  I mean as a deep cove missionary, u would need it or if you are just a regular guy go get . . .  ok sorry)

Here it goes

Faith is being sure of some things we hope for and knowing that something is real even if we do not see it. 

But now lets start with the substance of things hoped for. . . . How if I can feel something. . . like emmmmm . . . yeah wind on my face. . . .or say I’m drenched in sweat and just came out of an air tight room and then I needed air. . .lots of it. And then I feel the wind (“SUBSTANCE” on my face. Do I still have to wait for the sign that says WIND PRESENT to know that there is wind there? I mean  . .The substance of things hoped for .  . . .We hope for the wind and we feel it . . .its substance. . .do we then need a backup plan just in case we don’t see the sign that says wind . . . .  what if we see a sign on the wall that tells us that the room is still air tight, does that change the fact that the wind is blowing on our face. . . . Nope! That answer is No.

 Further more, faith is the Evidence of things hoped for.

                Please check this. In the court, all the judge or Jury is looking for is the evidence. . .they don’t need to be taken back to the moment when the event happened. All they need is evidence. That evidence (Faith) is what makes a man guilty or innocent. Therefore, if I have Faith, which is THE EVIDENCE, then why would I need a backup plan?

                It now is clear to me that the backup plan just makes me one of those guys Jesus talked about  . . .he said if I say I trust him and still have the whole backup plan thing, then my belief is being tossed around like a ship on see. . .by the waves. . . . . .not cool. 

I still wasn’t satisfied. . .but then Jesus hit hard . . . with the question DO I LOVE GOD?  . . . .first off I though. . . .question out of context. .then he came with this. . .Everything. . . .works together for the Good of those that love. . . .(Yep I completed it) God. So you see, even when things go how we don’t plan. . .when things aren’t going according to plan. . . . .lets just Chill! Coz its working to our best interest. 

NOW THE BACKUP PLAN. . .

So with all the events trailing my small growing business. . . . the disappointment I initially encountered, I found the perfect Backup plan. . . . MORE FAITH! . . .I just exercise my faith  the more. . .(so that it can grow from a mustard seed to a mango seed) 

Thanks again.

raQ!

 

 

Through my innocent eyes (by Vanessa Akuboh)

There's no wrong in this world

there's a place that I can always run

there's a hand that I can hold

there's hope,for tomorrow

there's bread, there's laughter

peace, and a happy ever after

there's a hand to hold

in peace and in sorrow and even the brighter tomorrow

its through my eyes of innocence

through these eyes, it all dont make sense

through these eyes that God has blessed

because I see through the word He's given

His still small voice,my conscience, His love the very essence...

Tim ba ka ibukun mi (Youroba)

I can try but they are so many

for the trees, the stars

the moon and this land

for love for life

for family, for friends and more

seeing through these eyes, what more can I ask for

cos He has given me, and made me, all that I am and more 

through these eyes of innocence

through these eyes that God has blessed

I can stand tall in faith, by faith

and say in His love I'll wait

till I see no wrong in this world

till I have my happy ever after and more...     

                                         Vanessa Akuboh

The Portrait of Me

Every Stroke, Brought

Brought me close

. . . .to perfection, to pain

 

Every Stroke

With Precision

. . . .Completing a master piece

. . . . Correcting for the masters peace

 

Every Swipe

. . . . .Clearing a part of me

. . . . Smoothing me out

 

How perfect I turned out

. . . A little more in beauty

. . . .A little more in tears flowing

 

Every Thing worked forth

Everything hurt forth

Every little one of them

 

All swipes working together

All splashes, all clearing

From a perfect and empty canvas

 

All things working out

Creating . . . .

 

A Portrait of Me 

                                      Opaluwah Akor