I am Tobi, and my colour is my name. They see slaves, but i see beauty, the type I’d claim. Shall pretence continue to pretend? Or will the happiness of slavery be our end? These waters will dry up from the body of this friend. Force is the tradition, they’d never borrow or lend. What […]

Is God a part of mankind? The spiritual wouldn’t always bind. Can’t faith come from troubles we have seen? Man is the dirt his god won’t dare to clean. Before this peril, there was goodness we could find. Tales had wooden plants and colors were green. Heaven didn’t threaten to leave you behind, And little […]

What is this? What did we miss? What is old is dusty. They no longer remember, their memory is rusty. Culture, we make amiss Our children are culture unthirsty This is what we chose to dismiss, We didn’t know they’d become so unlucky. Leonell =========================== All for the fad of the tube show Our culture […]

How e be say As labourer get power reach No be so money full ‘im pocket? How e be say As book full professor head And big big grammar boku for im mouth, No be so im pocket wan tear with money? How e be say Some small pikin dem Wey just dey arrive for […]

We all are tenants In this house not built with hands We don’t pay rents Until the day of judgement. We all are tenants In this room Or the other room Where landlords demand for your soul without a conscience Bose ======================== In our house there’s hardly a noise, our housing rent comes in poems. […]

The walls know too well to move up- Then they drop their guards and sit down. The teeth would gate-keep, and then sup, Until the morsels get to drown The walls know too well to move up The tongue,her roof, her bed, her crown, Meet roundtable around a cup For a holiday out of town. […]

I know that love too can suffer From conditioned deceit and pain. But I know of he , the great bluffer Who it left mute and without brain. I know that love too can suffer; It had its fair share from our jane. It broke her but made her tougher And in return , it […]