WHO WILL REMIND ME OF WHO I AM by Bamas Sinach Victoria
Who harangues for the Rauti? I have reminded people of who they are I have run alongside them as they charge into battle I kept up their courage by singing...
BED BUG by Aderogba Adekunle
Bed bug? I have known you from your genesis: a speck of dust Impatient enough to be hatched by your busy-hunting mother- Who is fertile enough to birth till the...
WE ARE TIRED OF GROWING by Oppong Clifford Benjamin
Over here, life is on pause like Auntie Fafa's uncompleted structure. On its half course walls, red markings read 'Stop work, produce permit by KMA'. It has been there since...
I’LL BE THERE FOR YOU by Christopher Titus
When the sun’s set to shine When the birds are Out of their nest When all you’ve wished Is to become the best There’s always a hand That never changes....
HOW LONG? (FOR MOTHER AFRICA) by Ogedengbe Tolulope Impact
Mama, Have you seen your children Scattered all around Like sheep without a shepherd? Have you seen them Been dispersed like dry pollen grains In the hands of strangers Who...
SOMETHING IS WATCHING by Joseph Omojuwa
The Sun will not cease from bleeding, The moon shall never retire crying. The earth will never repent from evil, And the stars are watching. They have seen the crooked...
PETTY-ROLL by Oki Kehinde Julius
hungry kegs goes unfilled at a fast food where pump splashes fluid. barrel starved to fast the length of ramadan after jew's wednesday had been burnt into ashes. . angry...
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LUCK by Michael Inioluwa Oladele
Dear son of mine, Pay heed to these words of mine For they will be to thee a gold mine, And misfortune will not cross thy line. . There is...
CYCLES WITHIN A CIRCLE by Adeosun Oluwapelumi
Today My muse sought a rupture A release from pent-up emotions And silent musing Life As seen from my myopic eyes Is a flash of cycles caught within a larger...
ADDICTION by Cletus Nnaemeka
Passion overrides reasoning After the fight, you just come out without winning The mouth of guilt start screaming The pains keep on deepening Self-pity comes around knocking Those voices come...