Riba Akabusi 

London, England U.K. 

Riba Akabusi was educated in England. He holds a second degree Black Belt in Karate, and was the Junior World Champion in 1976. A trained actor, he has been in a long list of TV shows, theatre, commercials, videos, radio shows and documentaries, as well as many films. Riba is a Distinguished member of the International Society of Poets.

The Ballad of Rosie

Whatever you require Squire
If you can set my heart on file

O'Rosie, Rosie, my predicament is dire
How can I set your heart on fire

Admire, Squire my one desire
Desire sets my heart on fire

I desire, I desire, O'Rosie the fire
In my heart, it's you I desire

You Squire, are a liar
Your wicked way is what you desire

A Lad Insane

He's Jesus Christ
Or so he thinks
Incarcerated in the system
Maybe it stinks

He writes a book
To confirm his thinking
He takes a sly look
At the nurses winking

Are the nurses thinking
whilst they are winking
The lad's head needs shrinking
To correct his thinking

The lad in his delusion
Is lamb seh, his conclusion
The real Jesus Christ
Not an illusion

Swallong his pills
to cure his ills
He's Jesus Christ
On Calvary Hill

He can feed five thousand
On the plain
Is he merely
a lad insane?

Psycopathology Patient

Literature he tried to handle
Executed as a fandangle

His writing incoherent
Reading it a deterrent

Endeavouring to express his art
Readers couldn't decipher the parts

Obsessively he wrote his pieces
Regardless of the understanding of indices

Merrily he delivered his written expressions
Clearing his mind in written confessions

The reader alienated from the depth
His secret disguised and kept.