I looked at this for a long time and it became more evident that I am nothing but a tool to you. I have become the sole object of your satisfaction. I am the puppet and you my puppeteer. You run my day by simply pulling on the right strings, my confidence is gone as […]
Category: Sorrow
Who Can Stay
Is love’s protection not guaranteed in the contract of loving? It is amazing that we can claim to love but yet expose the weakness of the one we swear we have affinity for? Is Love tentative, or provisional? I truly find myself lost in the complexity of this. One Man says that he would die for […]
Raisin
The heat you feel is generated by disloyalty It starts like an ordinary idea but then a thought is born The action that follows is always a minor one, but then the deed is done The little things they say always grow up Wanderers often loose sight of the important things They constantly search for […]
Capital “D” migraine
The stress of religion The marks left by the beast are evident The position of power The playing of god by man The mind of a sinner The role of sin in humanity The stance taken by the wicked The plans of evil The milk is from the snake The sap is taken from the […]
Capital “T”
Those that find themselves standing in the empty room of imagination count sheep They Day dream and reminisce over untapped memories and unfulfilled visions To them, participating would have been the best choice; but their time is all spent Time does not reward all this neglect rather attempts to normalize alienated feelings Motion sickness all-around […]
Comfortable Complacency
Idleness breeds Mindless curiosity towards the conceptual versions of what the truth is not All these seem to keep me busy as the world chooses to Trend my nation #Nigeria We are under siege it might seem but the reality of this realization is that many do not share this obvious burden The average man […]
Cog
This world is ruled by wickedness, and these men have the upper hand When you wake up in the morning; having a sense of positivity, but find that insanity knocks on the doors of your mind seeking entrance What do you do? There is a lot we hold onto in our attempt to normalise our […]
Catenaccio ‘Bolted door’
Butterflies pounding on the walls of my stomach My heart beat rises , but my voice grows lighter The light coming into my soul seems darkened by the sadness of my heart My eyes are drenched with liquid sorrow as my pulse drops Left in the lurch : deserted but not abandoned for gloom still […]
Try A Little Tenderness?”
Over the Years I have looked up to men from my lowly position of boy but from that stead another looked with me and his name Nnamdi Ehirim Opeyemi . He is a friend , brother and most importantly a compatriot. I have searched for words to express my distaste and disdain for the events […]
Deterrent
“And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about […]
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