Blades clinging and shields clashing Bones breaking and soldiers stabbing Yet you prattle like a rattle While others labor and battle. Faces burnt by the sun’s scorching And palms torn from long swords clutching Yet you prattle like a rattle While corpses burn as the fires crackle. Women worn from crying Girls worn from raping… Continue reading PRATTLE LIKE A RATTLE by Ewuola Damilola Michael
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JUSTIFIED CRIME: by Abiola Inioluwa Oluwaseun
Hey Mr President I’ve been jailed for crime and immorality, Yes I am guilty, that’s the truth But if it wasn’t you who made me this way Nail me to the cross! My destiny was wounded, She screamed for help but no one heed, Now that she’s lifeless I’m left without a light on my… Continue reading JUSTIFIED CRIME: by Abiola Inioluwa Oluwaseun
LAMENTATIONS FOR AMINAT
Dedicated to the abducted Chibok School Girls Aminat, O Aminat! When you came Our life danced With drums and claps Sorrow and grief were absent Joy was our friend Our precious life Now had a successor Your roots Determined to cure the curse Sent you to a stranger To steal his precious magic We never… Continue reading LAMENTATIONS FOR AMINAT
OF PEACEFUL TIMES…
..a country of a Nobel laureate for literature, yet a land of resurgent illiteracy – Prof. Niyi Osundare Death toll in our land Snatching the young and old Infrastructures on progressive decay. Oh! how dreams dissolve to dewdrops As Boko spits from the hill top Beyond the destiny of fleshly yearnings Lured to the bed of… Continue reading OF PEACEFUL TIMES…
#BringBackOurGirls: SO SADLY THEIR SOULS
So Sadly so their Souls So Sadly So Their souls Ours was a barrel of laughter that they will come home Our eagle eyes of tomorrow They could make our earth a heaven How come this vulture wears the eye of a dove? Our innocent children Their laughter and hope for their homes How come… Continue reading #BringBackOurGirls: SO SADLY THEIR SOULS
HOPE FOR RESCUE
I hear a voice calling from Sambisa “Help us, Help us” The voice is so profound that I couldnt sleep “Save us, Save us,” they plead Our futures and destinies are being destroyed our pride, taken by force from us and our dignity trampled upon by common men “When will all these stop,” I ask… Continue reading HOPE FOR RESCUE
HOPE FOR RESCUE
I hear voices calling from Sambisa “Help us! Help us!” The voices are so profound I couldnt sleep “Save us! Save us!” they plead Our futures and destinies are being destroyed Our pride, taken by force from us Our dignity trampled upon by common men “When will all these stop,” I ask “If we are… Continue reading HOPE FOR RESCUE
#BringBackOurGirls: SHALL WE WAIT STILL
Ever seen a man who lost his soul? Left with his heart rigid like a stone His humanity can be seen, but through a hole His life, his seeds will live to atone He’s like a gastropod A yard away from his shell Sojourns without his conscience onboard Seeks for pleasure in itinerary of hell… Continue reading #BringBackOurGirls: SHALL WE WAIT STILL
ANTI-BOOK RAMS
They come in shady shadows With blind bombs and ghostly guns Leaving us to the mercy Of indelible, gory memories That paint red our weak walls Uninvited they come To steal Ada, Ade and Adamu Reducing breathing-man to breathless dusts Though they thrive in our midst We still must bake brown our broken bread Written… Continue reading ANTI-BOOK RAMS
#BringBackOurGirls: SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER
Market women keep bargaining in my head every second, I breathe hate In death camp, no warmth Must my blood be propitiation? Am I not worth more than a bet? Patriotism or victimization Out of reach of my loved ones where exist a glow absent here No saviour is yet forthcoming to rescue me… somebody’s… Continue reading #BringBackOurGirls: SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER