TO THE LOST ONA by Ololade Akinlabi
Far behind my shadow Your voice whispers into my lonely heart When will you be here? Asking the unquestionable Questions from your dumb-deaf 'chi' SPEAK TO ME!!! Its blinks not...
DEFEATED WARRIORS by Ololade Akinlabi
Chanting the victorious war songs from afar our warriors are back home all covered with the blood of neighbour enemies they never disappoint us. Their victorious medals stand not the best...
OYENUSI by Ololade Akinlabi
........then I realised Oyenusi lost his gun powder. Giving voice to the dumb guns, wakes up the sleeping trigger breaking the taboo of the silent midnight as eyes awake from...
TILL TOMOROW DIES by Ololade Akinlabi
Our long awaited table refuses to turn, In starvation we rejoice in impoverishment we smile, smile our tinted teeth-a slogan for poverty. Hope, no longer in our anthem Children,recite dirge...
TO MY DREAM LOVE by Ololade Akinlabi
Let's fly to top seven silver hills like the last evening cat walking breeze. Let me hide you in my arm-pit as we travel to where no eyes will see...
VANITY MISSION by Ololade Akinlabi
The journey to somewhere actually to nowhere Underneath the penniless skin lies the sleeping bones cracking, rumbling and snoring wakes when the light smiles Set into motion till the power of...
POVERTY by Ololade Akinlabi
Yesterday was a dream Today is reality Tomorrow is a drab vision Our territory can no longer hold Our households dance in penniless dance, backward, towards the red moses sea....