If Nigeria Was a Book

Vic’Adex turns Nigeria into an extended literary metaphor in this satirical spoken-word poem on corruption, resilience and national life.

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Downstream

Poetry Downstream Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 Downstream The sacred tears of angels flow Into rapids barren of love Downstream The blood of the innocent falls Into sacrificial bowls of violence Downstream The waterfalls of fleshy reaper Descend souls into heavens of hell Downstream The torrents of life Reverses tide on the hill of chaos […]

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Justice

Poetry Justice Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 Justice keeps taking scarlet tans On hues of dark curly hairs than- Than hues brunette or blonde or straight Dying black men is stale of taste Justice left for greener pastures Pledging to coins, pledging to coy Innocence’s a pawn of chess toy Lusting for greedy overtures Who […]

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Rest (Another Love Poem)

Poetry Rest (Another Love Poem) Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 Rest I am fallen upon your breasts And my hearts whispers rests How the slides of your waist Flutters into dream of my dreams When two great rivers meet They choose the depth within your thighs I have watched and become clueless Until others became […]

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Forgive? Yes! Forget? No!

Poetry Forgive? Yes! Forget? No! Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 Forgive? Yes, Forget? No! Too many roses have stained history’s snows Blunted arrows and broken bows But forgive me must Shall we forget when the noose hung From the hate that produced The hate that hate produced? Convince the Jews of Sobibor With a nice […]

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Adunni (Love Poem)

Poetry Adunni (Love Poem) Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 I see men hovering around Sweating and bolstering to make you smile! Like the ants invading my moustache For imprints of sweets you left on my lips Their voices whispering appraising beauty of you Hope the heavens are not bankrupt It seems you emptied it’s glittering […]

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Innocent Blood

Poetry Innocent Blood Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 Innocent bloods Is no sacrifice to an akbar Allahu Innocent blood Is no food for God Innocent blood Is not the price of freedom Innocent blood Should make all gods puke Yes! Yours too! Weather Je Sui tCharlie or I Am Baga Mike Brown or Eric Garner […]

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I Will Follow You

Poetry I Will Follow You Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 Sheep follows shepherd Even lambs unto slaughter Three hundred into Thermopylae Millions hailed Hitler Tightly Through ghostly caves devouring souls Your innocent staff, they comforted me Leading me to green Meadows And awes of still waters Still I will follow you Though when I strayed […]

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Stay Alani Stay

Poetry Stay Alani Stay Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 Do you not mind that the earth will scorn your demise? Do you not care that from death none again shall arise? Who gave you advice to seek solace in paradise? Do you know the route? What if you get lost in hell? None there has […]

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This Poem

Poetry This Poem Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 This poem won’t say a thing To the ears of the uncircumcised It won’t mean a thing This is not a poem to condone history’s miscarriages This is a poem of fury towards forgetfulness, to spank and correct Of hypocritical ships, deadly seas, storms and drowning Of […]

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