If you fall in love with a poet;You will fall too deep but you’ll love it.You will lose every reason to struggle and fall with a smile.You will dive in the ocean of his words;Words so perfect like water from spring they will clean the heart.You will bury your soul in the sea of his words and hope he recreates you perfectly.For a poet is a god and his words make flesh.When you love a...
I was nodding my head to Alpha Ojini’s vigilante bop. It was a coping mechanism, a push tobrace myself while I stood on the long and scattered queue that was nowhere close to moving. It was a distraction from the men that deemed it fit to toast me at a crucial time like this. I watched how their eyes accessed my loose jeans and fitted top as I walked to the queue. It made me wonder what motive...
Time and time again I ask myself this, hoping a response finds its way to me.Pain, sadness, anger,All these I feel constantly,All at the same time. All consuming. They attack continuously,Each wave stronger than the other.And each time I do nothing but wallow in each emotion.Do I know it is pathetic? Yes.Do I consider this untrue? Yes.Yet, I struggle against believing this.The voices are to blame...
The book store smelled different, it wasn’t the usual scent of new and old pages, there was something else, you look around wondering if the other patrons notice, it doesn’t seem like they do, you shrug and go on about your business, maybe it’s just you, you think to yourself. You don’t know what you’re looking for yet, you will know when you see it, this was your routine, every Christmas Eve...
I have a thing. Sometimes I cannot remember what happened 10 minutes ago. My train of thought diminishes until it’s nothing and so I try to start from my earliest memory. The one I dubbed “The Indelible.” The flashes usually start from his sickening hands on me, but what happened after that? Another flash comes and he is lifting my dress. I am only five years old, but I know that this feels wrong...
I make your world go round,You should bow down to me,Bow because I can lift you up or pull you down,Because even in Freetown, nothing is free. Some call me God’s gift,Others say I am from below,Some say I do good,Others know me to be the root of all evil.I make you beg for my presence,I make your children think Love is shown by presents,I make you fret from Nine to Five,Bow down to me; I make you...
As Florence dismisses her friend’s dramatic expression of gratitude, she doesn’t fail to notice how haggard her friend looks. Folake used to be the number one beauty of the class while they were in school. Folake had the looks that Florence was dying to have. Folake had small breasts, a slim waist, moderate derriere, and a fair share of hips for carriage. She was brighter than the...
Miracles like being thrown into a depth of happiness you can’t recover from Just like in our imaginations where life is in another form The grace to believe you are expecting a Miracle bound to happen With historical proofs of supernatural interventions, your mind will sharpenIt’s mysterious, but you start to believe in it If it entered your reality, you better be living it Life itself is a...
I am sorry for the things I have been doing wrong Sorry that I can’t strip this skin For the body you want I always meet myself halfway Forgive me, I am just a girl I will go to my grave Searching for myself There are so many rules Before I can test my wings It is your orchestrated taboos That keep me from flying But I have already known That we are all here on loan My soul is an elysian...
Titun Owurọ 1. Olúfúnmiláyọ̀ The morning was calm and gave no hint of what was to come. The healed wounds of sixty-one years would be peeled. “Grandma, one baba is here to see you,” Owólabí said as he led me to the room where he entertained the said baba. I always believed that a smell couldn’t bring back memories, but his scent brought me back to my youth. I had been in his arms too long...
