Tag: Family

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 […]

To The Fathers…

To the absentee daddies The ones who left their sperms and never looked back Who denied their DNA to the teeth Who wouldn’t take responsibility Well…it’s still your day We wish you were here with us, but it’s still okay We feel your pain, your fear, your ignorance We feel the burden of your guilt […]

STOP THE LIES JÒÓ (2)

#LoveWednesday (Read Part 1 at: Stop The Lies Jòó ) In all my years of listening to married people talk, I have not heard anyone admit that the challenges faced in the marriage of those who claim to have married the ‘will-of-God’ are different from those who didn’t. All they have said is: by marrying the ‘will-of-God’, […]

When I Look at Her

#LoveWednesday #Adeola-mi #Repost #Postsfrom2015 When I look at her The woman whose prayers will bless my marriage The woman in whose womb Adeola-mi had been giving a chance to live I see the cry of every mother and my heart bleeds even more She sees this young guy going around with her daughter Proclaiming his […]