Grand Hands

“There comes a time when you realize that your life is no longer in any man’s hands. Not in your parents, or your siblings, or friends, not in yours, but in the hand of God who does as He wills. And then you stop fighting and kicking against the pricks. You gain that smoother Iife of peace, and surrender. Then all you can say is:

“Not my will Lord, but yours be done.”

~Sandra C. Obiora 😊

The Faces of Spring

“Whenever spring comes, Hope springs up alongside these flowers.

Every flower unique in its own way. Sharing its beauty with the world. As if to say ‘Cheer up. Spring is here!”

As the trees come alive with flushes of greens, yellows, and reds, my spirit comes alive with vigour.

With spring comes a new peace and tranquility.

With it comes a heart of gratutude for all that God has made.

~ By Sandra Chukwudumebi Obiora

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Abuse & Manipulation

A Write-up by Humphery Adun 2018 ©

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Humans are relational beings; and thus, we owe our existence to the ability to cultivate relationships that sustain our mental, physical, emotional and psychological tranquility. In every relationship, there are roles played by each correspondence, and these roles are defined by several factors; age, position, class, family, culture, spirituality, and tradition. This plays out in such a way that it creates dominant and subordinate(dependent) individuals in the relationships. Interestingly, as adults we play both roles of being both dependent and dominant at the same time, across different relationships, and thus there is a diffusion of a learned trait from a relationship circle to another one; and this goes on and on, creating a tangle of relationship traits.

Artwork by Beena

Meditation by Tehmina Kanwal

I Lived!

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An Apoetsbrain Original Written 3/04/2020 © All rights reserved.

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I lived. I lived. I lived. 

I know that eight billion others exist alongside me. 

I know that others have come and gone before me. 

I know it has all been said before in different ways and phrases.

I know that in the picture of space and time we are smaller than a spec.

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Yet this is the beauty of our humanity.

That we can cycle through life enjoying what has always been enjoyed. 

Thus, I will not get lost in mundane thoughts. 

I will not get stuck in mediocrity.

One and all eight billion will know! 

I lived. I lived. I lived! 

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To Squash A Star

An Apoetsbrain original ©

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Tonight I looked up at a star as it sparkled so brightly.

I lifted up my hands in the freezing night and placed the twinkling Little Star between my thumb and index finger all set to squash it.

photography: Take me to the wild (retake)

Recently, I visited the zoo on my trip to Shanghai and came across the wild. I realized that we sometimes use the word ‘wild’ arbitrarily. When i ran into the ligers, the tigers, and the lions, i felt goosebumps spread across my skin, and my flight response kick in albeit a wall of glass between us. Welcome to the wild.

Woman

“The role of Woman is something spiritual. Profoundly spiritual. Her value is something insurmountable. Her very being defies human rationality. A little smaller yet so powerful. Lighter but a heavy weight lifter. She becomes Mother. Mother Earth, Mother Nature, Motherland. Beautifully birthing life itself. Birthing nations, birthing Christ! She is indeed something spiritual.”

Happy Women’s day!

~ Quote by Sandra Chukwudumebi Obiora

Apoetsbrain Photography: Beautifully Dangerous

An Apoetsbrain Original © All rights reserved.

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Innocent and harmless it appears.

It seems as though it has no other care in the world but to glide and twirl across the waters.

Its every move made as though to mesmerize and hypnotize its prey.  

Its color dancing to the light pretending to be light itself.

But like a moth hopelessly drawn to a flame, 

its poison soon spreads, 

and the hug you came over to give turns to a strangle.

Soon mesmerized and breathless you fall.

Adulthood

“At some point, we come to recognize that adulthood is not about the freedom to do and undo as we please. Rather, adulthood is a call to realization.

Realizing that your decisions now can affect a hundred generations ahead of you. Realizing that your habits now can seep into your blood, and spread across your generational bloodline like wild fire.”

~ Apoetsbrain Original

Love is Patient

An Apoetsbrain Original © All rights reserved.

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Love is patient, love is kind…

Love does not envy neither does it boast

Or so the saying goes.

‘I love you’ is said everywhere for everything at every time.

Love is uttered in every other sentence.

I Just See Another Human

An Apoetsbrain Original © All rights reserved.

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I know you have trillions in your bank account.

I know you have been born into much wealth.

Grey Skies II

Poem by Sandra Chukwudumebi Obiora. 13/10/2020 All rights reserved ©

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The Melancholy of grey skies is something I seek after.

Desperate at times to find myself.

Desperate to remain in that blankness,

Desperate to flee bright skies. 

Believer

“Sometimes I write not just to inspire others, but to inspire myself, and make myself the ultimate believer.”

~ Apoetsbrain Quotes 2015

What Is Music?

“What is music? Is it not but a collection of the sounds of the world? It is that special combination of what could have been noise that sets your heart ablaze, your nerves afire, and your feet to dancing.“

~ By Sandra C. Obiora – 5/10/2020

It Is Easier To…

It is easier to be sad than happy.

Just a Little More

“Sometimes, all it takes is a little more strength, a little more courage, a little more interest, a little more determination. Not a lot more, just a tiny bit more than you had before to make it through, and suffer no regrets.”

~ Quotes by Apoetsbrain

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Existence

“Imagine your existence. Remember the reality of your consciousness. Now Imagine only existing. Existing with no purpose, no warmth, no life.Knowing nothing, heading nowhere even after death. Such hopelessness!I wish to have nothing to do with it.

For indeed man was designed for immortality. By nature we are immortal. Where man therefore spends the rest of eternity after his time on earth is the most crucial question of his existence. Now we must decide. With God or without?”

~ Sandra C. Obiora

A Person of My People

Reflections from Summer 2018. A piece by Sandra C. Bamisile ©

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Being Nigerian in Nigeria is something nearly profound. There is a comfort that creeps over my skin. It is almost suffocating how magnificent it feels to be your own person among your own people. It is almost bewildering how ecstatic I am to eat the food of my people by my people, with my people.

The World With No Sound

By Sandra C. Obiora. Written 6.3.13 © All rights reserved.

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Imagine with me for a second a world without sound.

The ocean without the lapping and flapping of the waves,

My African Hair

By Sandra C. Obiora. © All rights reserved (Written 25.10.2013)

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My hair and I are not always the best of friends.

We sometimes fight, and we sometimes make up.

She gives me all this work and all this trouble,

Yet I love her for what she is, and what she represents.

Wisdom’s Call

“Wisdom calls aloud outside;
She raises her voice in the open squares.
She cries out in the chief concourses,
At the openings of the gates in the city
She speaks her words:
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?
For scorners delight in their scorning,
And fools hate knowledge.”

Proverbs 1: 20-22

This is a Day

This is a day, a week, a month, a year, a life, and a lifetime that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it. 

~Inspired by Psalm 118:24

I See Potential

Featured Poem by Olusola Bamisile (BB). All rights reserved ©

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As I journey from one city to another in Nigeria

And recount all the experiences embedded in every moment

When I Consider the Heavens

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?
For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

Psalm 8: 3-5

Heart Burn

An Apoetsbrain Original. © All rights reserved.

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I feel it. In my chest, and in my throat.

As though a snail has lodged itself in my soul.

Sliding and slicing. Bringing with it poisons.

What We See

“Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we know. Most beautiful is what we don’t.”

– Nicolas Steno

Love Isn’t Perfect

Featured Poem by Olusola Bamisile (BB). All rights reserved ©

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Guess you are waiting to read another sad story

Or the title aligns with your thought process

But permit me to contradict myself

Love is perfect and perfect love chases all fears

Staring At Closed Doors

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.”

-Alexander Graham Bell

The Black Race

Poem by Sandra Chukwudumebi Obiora. Written 30/03/2020 © All rights reserved

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I woke up feeling pained within me. Pained for the world we live in. Pained for her cries, but mostly pained for the black race.