Ololade Akinlabi Of a road I know,Where poverty breeds richness,‘Baba rere, baba ke…’Trample over me and take the right of easement. Of a road I know,Where people laugh out their Cries.Attempt to kill oneself is a suicide,Having a helping hand is a murder.Frustration is not by choiceBut a factor that simplifies destiny. Of a road […]
HighOnWord We met at a placeThat was to be a crossroadWhere men meet, greet and wavehoping to meet again,Maybe once, maybe twice a lifetime.We met there and stopped there.We laughed; we fought, fought andlaughed, butcould not go beyond.I looked back and returnedShe did the same and returnedBut the roads met again,where men meet, greet and […]
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 […]
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 Innocent lives matters Bring back Our Girls Originally […]
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 tuneless I imagine the confluence of our lips Where they […]
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 Your tender hands broke my kneels Placing me upon your […]
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 treachery, treason, deceit and betrayal About nations of […]