Ijaiya Tahir Hopefully, I will overcomeShamefully, I never doLike a song on replayI expected a familiar stimulusBut my solution wasmy problemIt goes on and on Trapped in endless timeI don’t mean life itselfBut the stimuli-response phenomenonI always come back for rematchA match I will definitely loseA familiar defeatI never cease to embraceAnd it goes on […]
Enigmatic Olumide Stardom is like an addiction to hard drugsIt’s the reason for our ailmentYet the high dose that aids our healing It’s the reason we wake every morningCraving for attentionThe search for relevance But irrelevances drove us hereLike chasing the wind, we catch nothingCheers when we’re up there, jeers at the break of dawn […]
Adeola Adegoke This life has got my thought by its tip,It’s like a stained glass shinningor teeth, colored and not smelling.This life in itself fathers my deeds;I plant every night, swollen seedsacross the pulpit of my lover.I touch her like no other day will come,In turn, she moan like the creak of door.Come by day […]
Sissy Standing in front of the mirror,There is just one figure,You, yourself, your reflection. You look like you,There is no such thing as doppelgangers,even if you are a twin to another,You are you. So it’s your lifeFigures when you dieIt will be you laid to the ground,not your son, daughter, mother, father nor wife . […]
Beatitude And the sea eats our landLeaving alone the dry shore sandFor they came with kleptomaniac hand,And got hold of things in their hand,For the sea eats our land. When the sea was eating our land,We were afraid to raise our hand,As it will make us run only errand,Errand not pleasing, but white men errand,For […]
Kigbu Ovey Salms On your Mark, Get Set, Bang!The sound you hear that springs athlete like the hareMustering all strength within, a great will to winFocusing only on one thing, a perfect finishingMaintaining the lane, refusing to trailPropelling the limbs, driving the nibMinding not the fellowsWith constant pacing, keeping weariness asidePlus a tremendous velocity, despite […]
Adefolami Ademola we didn’t ask to tread onthe gold-plated roads inyour fruity island of banananeither did we beg to be chauffeuredin fast-moving wonder on wheelswe never requested to wieldthe exponential grace of‘legislooters’ in the house of stupiditywe do not crave to house our undignified selvesin questionable monuments in abuja, bourdillonor such other edifices of shame […]
Ayoola Goodness Olanrewaju so if by tomorrow you do not find mehere. do not start sudden solos. sobs. or sighs strung for exiled sons. do not my name squeezeinto the sympathy of subtle snakes. or vain seekers. i must have gone yes and yearning into yesterday. and by dawnreturn rolling down the sun. i must […]
Kalejaye Folajimi I speak my heart to the windsto carry my agonizing messageto the ears of none but onehas the wind betrayed me? I am HIV positiveso text me sympathieslie to metell me nothing has changed and nothing willtell me we are friends and we will remain act like you really careI keep mute because […]
Yusuf Olanrewaju And through this car side mirrorsomething revealed my childhood,how stream flowed down my facefrom mum’s seven lashesfor begging candy from my peers. I heard the reverberation of the thunderstormfrom dad’s slap, formonetary gift from a stranger.I was scared again abouta child rumoredto have turned yamhaving collected ten nairafrom that passerby. I have always […]