Day Fifteen-#40DaysAppreciation Challenge
I saw them laughing hysterically As they rounded up their meals The look in her eyes Same of a newly Wed Yet well advanced in age “I Love you deeply”, she said. But just this morning, She had fought him For he had forgotten it Her birthday, Not that he really forgot But he had […]
Day Fourteen-#40DaysAppreciation Challenge
To the single mothers To the single daddies Saviours of a rather odious circle It’s even not about what happened Nor a question of how you got here But of your endurance and optimism Of your emerging response-ability How you manage to keep going on Your head above the murky oceans Of guilt, discrimination, and […]
Day Eight- #40DaysAppreciation Challenge
#LoveWednesday I remember the day #Adeola-mi said ‘Yes’, and I wrote about it, someone said congratulations and I was like “like seriously?”…Congratulations ké? Àbí, “Roll up your sleeves and get to work!” Relationship is no beans. It’s not a deal for light-hearted guys. Let’s not even go to marriage. It’s easier to read my #LoveWednesday […]
Day Three- 40DaysAppreciation Challenge
As most of us approached teenagehood, the tendency was to seek freedom, which to us meant a movement away from the dependence of family. We wanted separate rooms, separate meals…some of us even changed our names. But as we grow older, older in to the realities of adulthood, the responsibility that comes with it, […]
SALEWA AKANDE
#LoveWednesday Salewa Akande is my kind of lady Any day any time, she’ll sweep me off my feet The Salewas of this world; Beautiful and elegant Nature’s own in its finest combination Void of the ‘elantrophy’ of insecure girls The make believes of costumes and role-play The Salewa’s who won’t be put down by fakes […]
Divorce is Not an Option
#LoveWednesday Adeola-mi, I was going to write a different thing to you tonight, but the recent happenings around has turned me in a different direction. You see dear, as we journey in this marriage, and as our wedding day draws near… Before we enter into this thing, I want you to know…. THAT DIVORCE IS […]
The Burden of Love.
#LoveWednesday Tonight I feel lonely I know it’s just a feeling but then I wish I had someone to talk to Someone to share the thoughts in my mind Maybe then I can understand what they mean Someone to lay it all out to Well… I know you’ve asked “what is it?” You’ve asked me […]
Friendly Monster (For the Girl Child)
#LoveWednesday As I touched her hands Blood began to flow in my veins It was not the regular kind This one was a monster Within seconds my hands began to move In symmetrical movements around her And expansion found its way under me My mind raced to and fro To let on or let go, […]
The Hopeless Romantic
#lovewednesday (Lamentations of an Hopeless-Romantic 3) I want love I want passion I want life Call me an hopeless romantic Call me an unrealistic dreamer But I just don’t want a social contract Nor spend the rest of my life in a cage With some woman that we share rooms With some woman I have […]
Tearful Lamentations
#LoveWednesday (Lamentations of an Hopeless-Romantic 2. Read 1 here) I’m a one-woman kind of man It’s who I am. It’s who I decided to be And it’s who I hope to become It means I keep my focus on One Erase all possibilities of another And remove all form of backdoor mentality. I detest the complexity […]
