http://soulbrother.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by Okang Ashiwel O. en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:22:29 GMT 2009-12-29T08:22:29Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977880397 murderer. i called you murderer as you killed all the songs of my childhood, everything i had. but you didn't mind.   and each time you  killed another one, a lily died. . . . Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:25:42 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977880397 Okang Ashiwel O. 2009-11-01T20:25:42Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977880393 murderer. i called you murderer as you killed all the songs of my childhood, everything i had. but you didn't mind.   and each time you  killed another one, a lily died. . . . Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:20:38 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977880393 Okang Ashiwel O. 2009-11-01T20:20:38Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977861444 i see colors, monochrome colors when you call my name. three hours, and you looked at me, and didn't say a word, but silence is not empty. silence speaks in colors. so we spoke . . . Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:10:05 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977861444 Okang Ashiwel O. 2009-10-20T12:10:05Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977860271 i love you but i'll probably never let you know.   and i don't mind the love baggage you carry, 'cos i'd love to have your love.    and i understand why you love the . . . Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:50:15 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977860271 Okang Ashiwel O. 2009-10-19T17:50:15Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977693226 so we prayed for God to kiss our kiss-starved souls, so our leaky eyes could heal and we could navigate this present darkness of days, battered ships, each and every one of us, wave-tossed, . . . Wed, 27 May 2009 17:16:13 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977693226 Okang Ashiwel O. 2009-05-27T17:16:13Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977690762 love was cold tonight and the fire in your eyes was just a dim flicker   i love you, but i don't love your personal demons and you don't want to let them go.   your blue eyes . . . Sun, 24 May 2009 21:48:11 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977690762 Okang Ashiwel O. 2009-05-24T21:48:11Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977690758 we watched as they sang and laughed and danced and played and walked and talked, and tried to copy.   we couldn't help ourselves.   they say the days of legends are over. . . . Sun, 24 May 2009 21:25:09 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977690758 Okang Ashiwel O. 2009-05-24T21:25:09Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977572394 i bought you flowers, red flowers. for the first time, i made you cry. you cried words you had locked away for sixteen days, things you should've said a long time ago. your words bled . . . Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:27:09 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977572394 Okang Ashiwel O. 2009-01-23T15:27:09Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977567953 dawn broke and my heart broke with it. suddenly i become empty and my soul aches when i call your name. the sunrise feels your absence and the sofa mourns. dawn is beautiful like a sad virgin, . . . Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:12:05 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977567953 Okang Ashiwel O. 2009-01-19T16:12:05Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977561234 i should've known there'd be times like this, times when you'd come across like a whisper in the wind.   i should've taken my time to listen to the whisper . . . Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:09:52 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977561234 Okang Ashiwel O. 2009-01-12T21:09:52Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977561153 i remember the future how you would look with those grave eyes at my bumbling being, guiding my growth path with a smile or a frown.   i reminisce the present, the here and . . . Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:25:13 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977561153 Okang Ashiwel O. 2009-01-12T19:25:13Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977481579 let me trade you love notes, written on the feathers of an angel, tattoed on the walls of your heart. let me arouse your soul, like sunrays on a virgin flower. let me colour you . . . Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:32:47 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977481579 Okang Ashiwel O. 2008-10-18T16:32:47Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977375351 friendship was when i held your hand and we walked by dried up creeks with dead spirits on the banks and saw nothing but paradise, i think. love? love was when you left and the colours . . . Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:07:52 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977375351 Okang Ashiwel O. 2008-06-17T08:07:52Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977375347 it was a bleak, stark land with two hundred flies and no buzzards. skeletons of dying spirits provided bones for our makeshift shelter. i saw the skeleton of the love we once had, dying . . . Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:03:55 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977375347 Okang Ashiwel O. 2008-06-17T08:03:55Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977375345 you sat and sang and danced and played and laughed. mother and child, and i watched you from under the picnic tree with no branches, nursing the leftovers you'd wrapped for me in a . . . Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:57:57 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977375345 Okang Ashiwel O. 2008-06-17T07:57:57Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977375342 i'm sorry. i lost direction and got tired of all these mono-emotion faces. i could have made them smile, could have taught them a new expression but i drove off in borrowed dreams. . . . Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:51:13 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977375342 Okang Ashiwel O. 2008-06-17T07:51:13Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977375341 all his life, he wanted to burn but now he fades away, slowly, like an echo. the pain brings me to my knees. i cry for him. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:48:10 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977375341 Okang Ashiwel O. 2008-06-17T07:48:10Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977375339 i waited with outstretched arms from accross the street, payiently counting the last seconds before  you'd fall into the arms that had waited all these years for you. i closed my . . . Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:45:12 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977375339 Okang Ashiwel O. 2008-06-17T07:45:12Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977374431 it was valentine but no one came calling. i know because i watched from my window same as you. so i sent you a black rose, a black, metal rose. you didn't understand so you . . . Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:39:40 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977374431 Okang Ashiwel O. 2008-06-16T10:39:40Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977367777 i keep wishing i could write words made of feathers. i'd make those feathers into wings for you and you'd fly to the city of shadows where you always wanted to go. i wish i . . . Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:50:12 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977367777 Okang Ashiwel O. 2008-06-16T05:50:12Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977362049 I dreamt the world Into existence, last night And you were there with me, Two people lost in Thoughts we couldn't write. That's what we were. And you could have covered me With your . . . Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:08:36 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977362049 Okang Ashiwel O. 2008-06-05T12:08:36Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977362035 we talked for a while, the conversation going nowhere for a while, just the soft words that materialize when two people trade words. i don't know what you watched for, searched for . . . Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:49:49 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977362035 Okang Ashiwel O. 2008-06-05T11:49:49Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976968808 i dont understand. is it the crave for fruit juices or the search for half-sour milk that hypnotizes you away from the sheep you once loved? Wed, 02 May 2007 10:26:57 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976968808 Okang Ashiwel O. 2007-05-02T10:26:57Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976968810 yes, i came. not one of your many expectations, but still i came. i can see your eyes, mere slits, wide shut the struggle to break the stronghold of the playpen; the vise grip of teen loves. just . . . Wed, 02 May 2007 10:01:09 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976968810 Okang Ashiwel O. 2007-05-02T10:01:09Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976968793 i dreamt that life was a dream, and you were a fairy with rainbow wings, just like me. fluttering in the breeze, doing the sun dance. please wake my reality up. these dreams kill the will to live. . . . Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:49:56 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976968793 Okang Ashiwel O. 2007-04-26T12:49:56Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976957811   ThisKingdom SunRays    Have you ever opened the blinds in a dark room and had sunrays seep in? The room becomes flooded with light; bright.  This was the inspiration for . . . Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:17:35 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976957811 Okang Ashiwel O. 2007-04-13T18:17:35Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976950951 time flies and night draws near. pillows become sodden and hearts become heavy. oh, the things we do for love. thoughts fly to faraway places, loved ones. memories come pouring forth like the . . . Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:37:28 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976950951 Okang Ashiwel O. 2007-04-05T20:37:28Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976950874 On behalf of the team, allow me to welcome you to ThisKingdom. In the following months, we are going to be resurrecting the hibernating belief of the world in the goodness of people and catching fun while . . . Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:49:32 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976950874 Okang Ashiwel O. 2007-04-05T18:49:32Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976946906 stay just a little while, and i'll tell you words i tell no one else. stay just a little while and i'll make you smile in a way you've never smiled before. stay just a little while, and i'll . . . Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:03:27 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976946906 Okang Ashiwel O. 2007-04-04T19:03:27Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976943416 i've never felt so lost within the confines of certainty. i've never had to scream in pain in the places where i find pleasure. i found the girl of my dreams and she's the hydra of my . . . Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:02:02 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976943416 Okang Ashiwel O. 2007-03-27T21:02:02Z