Episode zero
Osprey: For the longest time all I ever wanted,
Was her hands on mine,
Maybe that’s what I needed,
But I was never sure she’d let me,
Because all I ever wished for,
Was her acceptance.
I once felt the touch of her hands,
And even though it lasted no less than a second,
I still remember that feeling,
Despite her forced greetings,
Our hands made contact,
And that was enough for me,
For some time.
But I needed her,
I need her,
I always have.
I wanted her,
I wanted more than just holding hands,
I needed more than just fingers entwining,
I needed more than my fantasies of her.
I needed her,
With me,
Beside me,
Across from me.
I needed her,
As mine,
With me as hers,
But a man could just pray,
And make wishes,
Especially when reality,
Was always going to be a bitch.
Young wolan: For you can never be
Unless you no need her
You bit just to hit
Why, do you think rules?
Or attune to have?
I know you want it
In the same way
I want it
Shuffle it once more
And refine it better??
Osprey: See that’s the thing,
I wanted her,
I want her,
I needed her,
I still need her,
But I’m stuck in a cycle,
One that I can’t break out of,
A cycle that knocks me off,
One that rips me apart,
Only because I can’t agree with reality,
Or the simple truths of constant rejection.
©Osprey & Young wolan
Episode 1
Poet Greg: Leave me not,
Hold me with your hand,
Grasp a little more of my love,
Hold my hand tight,
That I may remember not the alienation,
The day I wondered in wild of loneliness,
I’m now possessed of you,
Let your warmth keep me safe from cold nights,
Let your skin tone tune our turn,
To love our motherland.
If black is beauty how sweet is our clan,
Other colors are smart but black is beauty,
I adore and treasure you among lilies,
The perfect engulfment of mingled love and peace,
Sweet cheerful full of harmony,
Precious blood,
Prospectus skin,
And the permanent bond of two,
United as one.
Pink: I’ll not let go,
Coz from you,
I got the strength to hold on,
You lightened my way,
When I was crushed and dismayed,
Yes black is beauty,
But it’s not so without light,
You are my light, my Mr. Right.
Poet Greg: I’m now complete in you,
Alone I’m half,
But with you,
Two halves make a whole.
Pink: With the understanding of this,
We’re ready to make kids,
Show them the cultures of our clan,
Because it’s already our plan.
I will never think of parting with you,
Till death do us part.
You are now a part of my life,
And with you, my world is complete.
Poet Greg: The galaxies hold her hand,
She can’t fall from space so feebly in dilated time,
For her motion is gleesomely matched!!
She stays strong,
For the light of the stars shine her way in darkest night!!
She’s held by the bright night,
And this bond can never be shaken.
©Poet Greg & Pink.
Episode 2
How tender, yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the Bone!
The golden palms of a master piece
I cannot grasp
Them with a tighter clasp
Yet in silent yelda night
When darkness has fled with her
And hope seems to fade
Beyond the horizons of a vision
All I see is a dream within a dream.
©Odhiambo Austine R.
Episode 3
She is my Sanity amidst Chaos,
Queendoms; she is a Reigner,
my Harley Quinn she don’t Joke,
Queen of my world Since we were eighteen,
Hold my hand lets forget time
Cuz we forge our Reality.
Like a toddler desparately cling,
I hold dear,
dearly for if i trip
you grip and lift me up,
Ride or die
Day and night lets Dawn and defy Reality,
Cuz you are my Reality
©Rays?
Episode 4
Better than half a century ago
Our life most visible and conspicuous
In a way that can neither be explained
Nor clearly accounted for
A large number of something in something
It’s you deeply in me
From my personal whim
Rather than any reason or system
Seeming arbitrary.
People see some incongruity
The fact of being strange and not suitable
But I can’t see the slightest difference
Due to my ability of willingness
And belief ,that you are true and real
Something I ever covet
I got an increasing sophistication on you
Finding ways to augment your quality
It’s you I deserve with dignity
Reason to think carefully
Especially to find the possibilities
I say sometimes not often.
©Young Wolan
Episode 5
Like a black light burning your way through me,
I now got my soul yearning for the beauty of your darkness
Groping harder, asking for an eternal engravement
I never thought I could find so much beauty,
In what appears dark and is shunned in the light.
Never actually imagined that deep within,
At the very core of its blackness,
Is where I’d have found the most beautiful of wonders,
Love, love so fiery it burnt through me,
I found it hard to live like a normal person,
But had to hop and go slower,
Maybe so I’d have much time to feel it,
All in its own moments or rather to just make sure,
It doesn’t end too soon whatever the cause,
Couldn’t imagine that I’d ever find one ready,
To love a broken soul, one whose own soul breaks,
If they imagined they didn’t love you enough.
Like a black candle with a brilliant white flame, so very calling,
Your love, given limitlessly… I wanna succumb to it
Pure, precious love.
©Terrie.
Episode 6
You held my hand and promised forever,
I entwined my fingers with yours,
And the feeling that coursed through my heart was mesmerizing.
I had always been a sucker for small actions like that,
But no one really knew.
I guess, coz no one really knew me, but you did.
You came into my life,
Dug in deep and found that soft spot in my heart,
That even I didn’t know existed.
Funny how even the hardest of diamonds crack under pressure.
I let you.
I let you bring down those walls,
As if they were merely made out of ice
And with your hot embers you melted all that coldness away.
It was a beautiful feeling for sometime,
No, its actually a beautiful feeling even now.
But I just couldn’t embrace all the warmth could I?
I just had to ruin everything like I do right?
With time the warmth begun scorching me,
It was as if the heat was burning up my insides.
All the love you poured on me was suddenly like hot lava.
I wanted my ice back.
So in the middle of all that,
I turned all that beauty to chaos.
What was love turned to something darkly twisted,
Like everything u was used to.
I wasn’t one for happiness like in your world.
So I ruined it all.
And now that I am dying in this misery that I caused myself,
I wonder how it would have felt,
If only I appreciated all the adoration you worshipped me with.
So I let go of your hand, but you unwound hearts.
And just like that I lost my infinity.
So I guess it’s true what they say,
Some infinities are greater than others
©Star.
Episode 7
You are the light to my darkness
The yang to my yin
The white to my black.
We are so different
Like day and night…
I never thought we would suit,
Yet… We complete each other.
Only together are we whole.
I might run
I might hide
I may slip into the cold darkness
I might get swallowed up by the shadows
And I might turn away from you,
But I ask you…
Be my light
Be my salvation
Chase away the darkness and shadows that cling to me
Guide me from the coldness of the night into the warmth of the dawn
… And please…
Don’t ever let go of my hand
©Gihihi?
Episode 8
My mind entrusted my heart to you.
My heart kept its unending desire for you.
My eyes held all it saw but only blinked for you.
Then came this red beautiful night,
The night I wrote on your precious book.
I knew how much commitment I needed,
And how much closure and protection you expected.
It was barely a week of the second month of spring,
On those private hidden streets of Nairobi,
A day before I was to take you home,
Where you decided to be a “Mother of the Dead”.
Even though our love always flowed through our palms,
I always hated your dark black fingers,
And even though I trusted you much,
They always gave me second thoughts about you,
It all dawned on me,
When you let down our own deep in the city toilet.
I didn’t get a chance to see you thereafter,
You even blocked and ignored me,
You only praised your deeds and character,
Amidst your friends who only appreciated,
And rejoiced over the wrong.
My tears flow from the crevices in my heart,
Blood oozes out through the vessels in my eyes,
My strength lies in the Great book of God,
Strengths to keep me from pursuing and devouring you.
©YuvaanGjoe254
Episode 9
I’d cross the cosmos if it meant
To be by her side, she’s my world,
The embodiment of beauty,
The universe wide and infinite, but
I long for only one, her angelic touch
Her piercing eyes that has the sun jealous,
Her kisses to live and die,
Billions of stars fill the galaxy, but
The brightest of them all is
By my side. There isn’t a better
Place to be but here,
Countless times when I come tumbling
Down, she hastily pulls me up to
My feet, from dusk till dawn, I’ve
Found the strength in her to move
Mountains of challenges,
To conquer seas of trials,
I pray she holds my hand and never let go,
If she doesn’t,
I’ll plummet into an inescapable void,
A black-hole never to rise.
©Muzamiru.
Episode 10
Listen and listen please.
Because all that I want you to do is just to listen.
If words can bring you along,
Then I dare to sing till noon,
I don’t want to wait for so long,
For I want to see you soon,
Beiby, you are my favorite song,
That can make me fly to the moon,
I have been keeping your love all along,
Waiting for you to feed me with your spoon.
My thinking is not wrong,
For what I feel is so strong,
That even the power of Samson
Cannot scare me anymore,
Feel and feel please,
Because all that I want from you,
Is to feel how I feel for you.
You have penetrated my Heart,
So this is what I am requesting from you,
That please keep me right at the centre of your heart,
Block me up in your hat.
Never to allow anything to hurt me…
Not even your love.
Love me and love me please,
Because all that I want is your love.
The love I have for you,
Can force me to die for you,
But I don’t want to die,
Because I can’t leave you behind,
To go ahead alone.
Hear me ooh!
Hear me please,
Because all that I want is you to hear my voice.
Every moment that I breathe,
I feel part of you in my breath,
Whispering to me each time,
That you are all mine,
And you love me in many ways
So I don’t have fear,
That thing can change any time.
Come please my darling,
Because all that I want from you,
Is you to hold my shoulder.
I can call you all the sweet names,
But words will not express
The deep filling and the good things
That makes me keep yawning for you,
I love you with all my heart,
And if I could be given another Heart
I will love you with will of them,
Because loving you is everything I want,
So if loving is enough to show that I love you,
Then I will love you until loving you becomes lovable,
©Joseph
Episode 11
Sorry won’t give back what they once stole
Sorry won’t heal a broken bone
Sorry won’t heal my scars
Sorry won’t fill another hole
Its just a wake-up call
It became a mantra
It lost its meaning
Sorry is all they kept telling me,
After taking him away from me
But love was always present
They ruined him,
Because they never wanted to see us together
He was now a street boy
He had no place to call home
A nobody to the ordinary world
He was like an outcast, nobody cared for him,
They wanted to kill him
Poor black!
To me
He was everything
When he left the world became so empty
I was hurting, felt worthless, disappointed,
And anxious with how life turned out to be
Why let go?
I love black and I must hold on
He is my alive diary,
The missing half of my soul
Love was always present, it never left us
When he eventually showed up, it didn’t last long
And now with him, its back
That sweet feeling of being loved, wanted and cherished
©Mette
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