Love Is Sweet When…

#LoveWednesday #Adeola-mi Love is sweet when… All is seemingly okay and it seems she has all the right words to say Traffic is lighter and emotions flow from one to another She agrees to walk home so we can hold hands Her ‘atlas’ and ‘yanshicamara’ is well packaged She hugs you tight and your pulse […]

Tell Me

#LoveWednesday TELL ME Tell me you love me Tell me I mean so much to you Tell me I stand out of many Tell me you want me to be yours Tell me you like the way I look Tell me my smiles make you smile Tell me my words inspire you Tell me you […]

My Beautiful Red

I remember the first time I set eyes on you Having read so much about you I had waited several days to finally met you And lo, I met you just as beautiful Being the first to ever lay hands on you You were in deed my virgin red The first night we met, I […]

Drifting Away From Love

#ItisPossible Is this how one begins to drift away from love? Is this how ones heart begins to glow for another? Is this how relationships eventually break? Is this how an affair begins to take place? All she had was her sensitivity She seems to be able to pick out the slightest changes in my […]

Just How Long?

#LoveWednesday. I once asked “How long should one wait in love for the beloved to really understand that one’s love is for real and decide to accept”, and various responses followed. Some said, “If it is true love, it will last and not change no matter what happens” And I quite agree with them… Even […]

My Mother

Of all the many things I’m grateful to my mum for: She took me to church as a toddler, thereby planting my feet on the solid rock to stand. I have fallen several times from there, but I’ve never left. She allowed me to roam freely in church until I found a constant place within […]

This Love Will Last

#LoveWednesday #ItisPossible In those days as a young religious man, whenever I see a guy and girl, or brother and sister together in a corner, on the road, or at the junction of a street, talking, smiling, or making some melancholic motions, my reaction has always been to see them as immoral, unserious, and jobless-at […]

The Magic of Love

#LoveWednesday #Adeola-mi He walked up to my side and asked “how much is a wrap of ‘semo’?”, “#50” I said, as I paid for mine-two wraps of ‘semo’ and one goat meat. At first I was surprised at the man’s humility to hold such conversation with a boy old enough to probably be his last […]

RAPE: Who is to Blame? The Guy or Girl? -A Discussion

In response to my poem:Woe to the Rapist ( http://wp.me/p2D2CT-g2)  Some said it is the man. Some said it is the lady (or woman as the case maybe). Who do you think is really at fault? How can this evil be prevented? I’m inviting you to a discussion tonight between 8-11pm here. (You can post […]

Woe to the Rapist

Woe to the rapist The one has done such evil The one who has defiled another The one who has broken her soul Be my Val, he says Come to my house in town But his heart is far from love Lust has taken over him I will give her all she wants I will […]