Oyile Javan

Just flown in, from Africa Thermometer Infrared for Test Ebola Now and again, is flashed across my face I am, separated,”sorry sir you gotta go for further tests” Upon request to know what’s goin on, ‘just taking precautions’ Is all I am told For your information, Mr.Jim Crow, I come from East Africa Millions of miles, from West Africa And just because I am black, doesn’t qualify me as an Ebola vector After my forceful quarantine at the airport, a PR-stunt apology is made In the name of routine checks, you know I won’t take it at heart; I have a job to resume In the morn, eager to see my colleagues I am the first one at the workplace Everyone says a hush hae, not moving any closer The rudest shock, is when my boss’ secretary, forwards an email An extract reads, Just to take precautionary measures, you gotta take a mandatory leave Of twenty one days, before you resume your job This is where I get to swallow, the H.I.V patients’ testimony Stigma ki...

After this well-oiled campaign Now it’s time to assume office Plot 23, Pensylvania Avenue I got no Idea, what this really means But I know, it’s gonna be different From the room 22, I have been For the past one year So in love, so in life Survival for the fittest Or you are X like Malcolm So why do we live? Ask Socrates or Mallotes As for me, I live to believe My own will Never dogmatic, always diplomatic Playing around, with the tune of life I hate it sometimes, when I get hurt By appointment, with disappointments Time and again, I have secured Wasted opportunity, grants Wasted brains, Aide Wasted time, scholarships But, I am okay with that As long as I live My philosophy lives No mistakes, no heartbreaks Can take away what you meant to be To my family, friends and wellwishers, I am truly humbled For always being there for me Shout out to my haters, sorry you couldn’t face me We started from, the bottom, now we here You a...

Never ever in my whole life Have I ever been  a psycho I  left the engine running Just came to see what you gonna do about this So I made it,even though you and I both know It’s a waste of time I don’t get it Why you insist on telling  lies This is stupid A-level  stupid I still love you girl Eventhough things ain’t right But I can’t take no more I may be a dumb-ass nerd But I ain’t stupid My new nickname is,love-geek That’s what my friends call me When they see me speakin to mahself They tell me,let go She is not the one But I don't wanna listen Coz you keep on beguiling me Till my cup runneth over And I just don’t know why I love it so much I just can’t crack this code Twenty first century slavery,I guess I think I’mma enlist in a psycho ward Coz this cancer is worse than Ebola Tryin to make this work But you act like a jerk Funny I’m the broken one But I ain’t the only one that needs saving This d...

Skeletons in my closet Stressed up, throwing up in my towels I gotta get my shit together Coz no nigger cares Naysayers top the tabloids From Warren Buffet, to the Buffet at The VMA’s This poverty chain hurts, this pain works Though I got nothing to lose in dis business of life I aint umbrella proof Nor can I turn a blind eye Good guys gone bad Crack babies litter the streets Big homies, sellin crack to the kids Yeah you earned a dollar Yeah you gotta survive But the fact still remains, those are sleazy ways Big sis I know Big fish needs a break from his wife You gotta make him comfortable Coz that’s an opportunity to earn top dollar All this because, of the airtight cage of poverty That runs in our DNA I can see the clouds of inferiority Forming in our mental skies When your first name is nigger, middle name boy However old and the last name John I can now understand, Why you gonna act like that Inner fears, outer resentments ...

They took away all my dreams Shared the profits in the streets Now I am old enough Through them kicks Through them blows I am well informed That I will be nothing of value I have been fighting all my life Struggling to survive Every day, every night Trying to turn the pain to power Your jealousy, your oppression All that hurt, all that lies Fire my soul Raise me to cloud nine When the moment is ripe You will see fire in my eyes Cause I am stronger than you know All the flaws, all the falls That’s the cocktail That makes a superhero learn to fly Beasts in my belly Lions in my heart So hard to control Coz I have swallowed So many of them From the school of life Hits and blows, I never let em show But now it’s time You stood back and watched Them explode into a galaxy Larger than the Milky Way Don’t call this a comeback Coz I have been here for years And I won’t stop, no I was destined That’s why I can see the tr...

I came Undetected unannounced Not even the C.I.A, K.G.B, MI6, and The C.D.C Could pose a threat I am not contagious But I am malevolent My victims whenever, wherever and forever Are filled with holy dread Upon my confirmation of our relationship What they ain’t learnt yet Is that I can be contained Especially in the early stages of our partnership Though you can try and flush me out with chemo and radio You cannot eviscerate one of our kinds From this new found haven, your body And I promise to make you mourn to make you groan My treat btw, LOL Like they say, keep your friends close your enemies closer I know I am your enemy Only that I come as a gladiator in a suit Don’t get it twisted; I know your foreign policy That you don’t negotiate with terrorists like me But here is something to reconsider I am ready to give you some leverage In some bodies I thrive in others I strive to survive Ninety percent alcohol bodies, I thrive Heavy ...

Dear memory, I went down your lane The road was rough Than a bough With potholes, larger than life Eager to walk, I moved on The chilling weather The freezing hailstorms Almost made me as awkward As a cow on ice The passages Through hills and valleys Through rivers and seas Kept holding me back, but I got to say I ain’t trying doing what everybody else’s doing I won’t look back coz I am gonna do what I gotta do  I won’t let em control my life Coz I believe life is a prize And to live doesn’t mean you are alive As everybody dies but not everybody lives So let me call the shots as the umpire Cos this is my empire And as I draw a map to a place higher Flying with the stars in the sky Don’t worry about me For I will retire with the ring of a king.

Twilight Friday Just received my paycheck After days and months of patience As they say the government works in mysterious ways Today is my day! After a massive “restocking” With foodstuffs and good stuffs I reduce the debt crisis In the name of a six-months rent Now our cat and mouse game With the landlady                     Is dead and gone Free at last free at last thank you lord I am free at last My mind is crystal clear, like the hourglass I take a walk In the neighborhood Owe my! I can’t avoid gazing at my neighbors Brand new X5 parked in the driveway The next thing I know I am in the back of a medieval type land rover ‘Gichana lala chini, ii gari apana ya mamako (Young man lie on the floor this vehicle ain’t your mamas) After an hour or so Full of slaps and boot kicks We reach their ‘safe haven” Half walking, half flying I fl...

  Kenyan Iam Tribal lists call me Rendille Tribe-all-lists call me Kenyan 18 I turned Five years down the line To the Area chief I went Weh Gichana natogha wapi ( Young man where do you hail from) And many other nonsensical questions Enough to fill a Yellow pages volume Were answered After weeks and months of this “Research project” With clear objectives To find out about my family,clan, subtribe and other archaic archelons The chief signs up the form To the district registry miles away is the next “Perfect destination” Fingerprints, lights and cameras My eyes hurt 12 months, 24 months My Identity card is yet to come What my ancestors did To make their generations look Like suspects at first sight Is still an hornets nest My Identity seems A threat to national security If wishes were horses Second class citizenry, like I seem to be Would have sold our locale On OLX and gotten The hell out of here For what’s the se...

Radicals change they look at One side of the coin, The positive side, Liberals change they look at Envisaging change  But also looking Critically both sides Conservatives change they look at In the format of classics Question is Where are you at?

It wasn't me  Who chose to be H.I.V positive Nor did my mama Decide so So why the cold stares Colder than the cold war Anytime I appear in your vicinity Helter skelter you run Like a nuclear bomb scare That nigger should be quarantined  Is the "public opinion" This aint  flu As effective as H1N1 But just an immune-code-cracker We both know you know So why go on Burrying your head in the sand And wondering if, I got more lives than a cat Because its taking too long before I go Six foot under And get the hell out here What I only ask Is some humanity In your DNA FYI what kills faster More than anything Is your stigma Your viewpoint maybe sweet But blood is thicker mark you Even if what you are doing isnt tasteful I will move on with class and grace Because I will never wish death on you But I will reflect on you

I know I got 99 problems But none counts I fell off the crack But not off the hook I will rise With more firepower Than Napoleone's horses I know I am caught in the middle I cry,just a little With each tear,a step closer To who I must be I Know That failure is a catalyst To profound re-inventions Lincolin,Luther,Maya,Mandela,Rowlings The list is endless Of those before me Who have proven Their failures wrong Let me toil Let me moil Till I mill The ME in Me So that no man living And no man dead And no man yet to be born Can accomplish My accomplishments I will fight To embrace my destiny Not just for me But for those who look upto me

When am gone Cry for me a little Think of me sometime The treasured moments Put e'm in your chest I lived my life to the full And now my date has come As it is written on my tombstone I was a legend of my time I made history Now the only favour I do request "por favor" Is that you let it go Turn your back and shut the door To the story of my life Not a footprint of my life  Should walk in your memory You spend my love till I went bankrupt  You got nothing to lose By letting me lie in my grave Soliloquizing over the story of my life.