School Versus Education
So a day before exams, we cram up Loading every inch of our brains with words Words that don’t make harmonic sense Just in response to the past questions and AOC So we get lucky The same questions are asked And we pour out as we have gathered Leaving our brains emptier than before Our […]
Let It Not Be
Adeola-mi, Let it not be That we were driven by our senses By our sense of sight and its prospects That of curves and symmetry Let it not be That our taste led us here The very things that drive our appetites That of skin color and contours Let it not be That we […]
SARAKI: HIS GUT, HIS BALLS, THE PANDORA’S BOX AND THE DANGER OF ONE CHANCE! by Ayooluwa Oyelere
The WITCHES, wizards and the household wickedness of the Saraki dynasty must have followed Bukola into 2015! If the butterfly which perches with ease dies nonetheless, then, it is a sad day for the frog who jumps up and down the ragged earth with reckless abandon. AT a time when the entire nation entertained the […]
I am, THE DARKER BROTHER by Ayooluwa Oyelere
I AM, the black and the bold, the colored and the cultured, high and lowly, coarse but genteel, like a prim and a proper child, seized of right behaviors. I am, THE DARKER BROTHER. I SPROUTED, like the blade of an elephant grass, through the thick and the thin, the fat and the lean,the brown […]
I’M MISSING SOMBORRI
#LoveWednesday Baby, I miss you so bad So bad that words can’t express But I won’t jump the gun I’ll just wait till the time is right Here’s what I’m gonna do Here’s how I’ll spend my waiting days Waiting till you’re finally mine Soul of my soul, flesh of my flesh For every time […]
The Tale of the Anointing Oil
So I got to church on Sunday morning and we were asked to join in the prayer session. I wasn’t informed about it before, but since it was ‘Yahweh’, the God I had been talking to and not ‘Sango’ or any other idiot, I didn’t need preparation. I’ll spare you details of my dissatisfaction for […]
I MISS YOU
I remember the first night we shared As we journeyed that lonely road As the streetlight cascaded your face I knew I was with her, the one I had waited for. “Don’t ever leave me”, I whispered Many nights have passed now And I can’t imagine you not here with me Gosh! I miss you […]
Did you miss me?
Have you missed me? Cos I’ve missed you With every passing day I stood away Away from your smiles, The warmth of your hands as you type your chats The moments we shared kept ringing in my ears Especially Wednesday nights and its stupendous lines I couldn’t wait again to relish the same with you […]
The Frustration
The frustration That makes us lose our inhibitions Trying to meet up with others But often swept under Yearning for our voices to be heard But never making it pass our beards The frustration That makes us ignore our passions “Anything!, just get me out of the backstage” Feeling no shame on our faces It’s […]
Oh Law! By Khose
Oh law! How I hate thee You made me put myself on a performance treadmill And when I didn’t do the things I ought to do, I became angry at myself and always felt guilty I became confused as to whether God was pleased with me or not You made me feel I […]
