Farewell Song

So you sang me a song to relay how you felt,

If I say I wasn’t surprised, then I’d tell you a lie.

Left your song on repeat, just to make out some sense,

Thinking why you had to come just to leave me in the lurch.

I haven’t moved an inch, I’m still standing here,

You knew where I was right from the very start.

Now you’re gone and I can’t help missing you.  

But if you asked if I did, you know I’d definitely lie.

I find myself looking out into the streets,

Thinking maybe I’ll spot you and wave like it’s all a big surprise.

Passing through the places you like, doing all the things you did,

Looking at my phone once, twice, fives time a minute.

Just in case I missed u seeing me pass by.

But now I’ve come to realise, that you’re not coming back.

And no I can’t change me, so I accept my fate.

You were never meant to last a day longer than you did.

And am grateful for the little time we spent,

You taught me a lot in such a little space of time.

I didn’t always treat you fair, but I always cared.

I guess that what makes us all the people that we are today.

Maybe one day I’ll see you or maybe I never will.

I pray whatever we do we’ll live happy fulfilled lives.

And when we both grow old we’ll tell the story of our youth.  

©SweetestRuby 2011

Tick Tock

Counting down the seconds till you’re gone,

So I can say hello to tomorrow

You can’t stay, no not with me.

I won’t be your fool a day too long

Am moving on with the hands of time,

I can’t be wound, am forward bound.

If you see me clearly now, better take a picture,

Because the time is fast approaching when even binoculars won’t offer u a glimpse.

Am here right now but not forever,

I’ve got greater hand pulling me higher.

I know Big guys,

Can you imagine he who can spin the Milky Way on his finger

Who can quash the earth because it’s his footstool?

Who is, was and will never change...

Now imagine, am the apple of his eye.

I wouldn’t try to piss me off

And you devils don’t like me because am a fighter,

The feeling is more than mutual because its a hater.

Am holding on to the promise,

Am linked on more tightly than the skinniest jeans.

And you can take it from me,

You can’t break me, because you didn’t make me.

Tick, tick, tick... Your time is up. Now get out.




©SweetestRuby 2011

I Was Here

I’ve got to make my mark!

To show my difference, affect the world around me,

To cause a change, because the Almighty changer is in me.

I don’t conform to society’s standards, no, am not on that level.

I’m alien, a higher breed. I can’t fit in, I wasn’t made to.

Am outstanding, made to shine bright.

I don’t follow the blind, I live for the Light.

Share some love, give someone life and live right

So at the end, it’ll be obvious I was here.

Use your skills to make the world better.

The journey of a thousand miles starts with a step,

Building skyscrapers starts with a single brick,

Nothing is impossible, if you can see beyond the visible.

So I’ll take my step in faith never looking back.

This type of life His vision I mustn’t lack.

I’ll keep P.U.S.H.ing* loving God and all around.

So when my time is up, and the race is done,

The world would be better off because I Was Here.

Leave your mark. Make a difference. Less talk, more Action.

(*P.U.S.H – pray until something happens)




©SweetestRuby 2011

Shouting out for Freedom

I see you shouting out for freedom

Your veins protruding from your neck, as one in violent labour.
Yet it seems so distant it can barely be heard
Like a whisper in a rave.
You sold yourself to slavery,
Paid a man to take your soul.
Now you’re empty left alone, crippled with only your voice
All that you’ve ever needed.

 I hear you shouting out for freedom

it seems am the only one who does.
The chains it seems are out of fashion,
But you bound yourself up all by yourself,
And now your jewellery has made you its home.
Slowly all was striped from you even though you offered it anyway.
But we could never change what was meant to be,
We never had the power to.
The courses and collisions en route was meant as preparation,
We’re living in the dark, it’s how we’ve lived since birth,  
Blinded but still looking for a way out, bound down but hoping to step forward

I feel you shouting out for freedom

Your screams vibrating through my very being,
Causing my own thoughts to shudder.
If you’ve never known light, you’d think darkness is right
But in the dark no one can see you to help you
Ignorance leads to destruction and knowledge to freedom
Find the truth and it shall set you free.



©SweetestRuby 2011

My family's summer

Ms Thomas feat the Erinles, Irefos and Thomas's (2009)