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Heaven Is Not For Me I do not believe in heaven because what is heavenIf I could not loveThe trees, the breeze, the mist, you?That I would no longer wake…More
Lost Call We move forward in conjecturesAnd backward in previsions.The bayonets of servitudeWax stronger and impetuousAs the cistern of citizenry,Where compatriots drink from,Has been maggot infested and bacterized. The staff…More
Bitter disappointmentsKnock like long lost relativesAnd stay like hungry leechesThe girl would not cry When her plans fall apartLike a house of strawAnd refuse to stand againThe girl would not…More
Love first came to you as your father on his knees, arching his back for the gate man; his rolls of fat glistening with sweat with the gate man’s arm…More
come here, watch him bend and jump into the riverhow he breaks the surface every few seconds to laugh at mei write in the poem that i cannot swimthat i…More
Unbeknownst Some years ago,Dad kissed the house goodbye,Left me searching for the name of every line in my palm,Broken like an eagle whose wings have been shot,And my eyes drowning…More
For Lagosians in recess POETRY walks on the streets in Lagos. It is in the incredible dynamic of life which enacts, like some incandescent power, the moment of each living…More
in her you will come to seethe genesis of voices embedded intwigs of shades. you will come to seequagmires, large like hitler’s armageddon,being drowned under the auspice of tears.you will…More
How to Discover Life in a Dead Body when you first heard a thing breaksit was your heart,the world tendered a seat on your head and every breathof the air…More