I promise I’m not teary, I’m fine! but watching as kids litter their hearts with pain, scared their next step might be on a landmine, having to worry if what is above their heads is another missile or just sunshine leaves a hole in my faith in humanity, every passing second for them is a […]

if Gotham won’t be mad Batman is synonymous with who I am fairness is breakfast, everyone must eat because Bi a ba n’so’fin fe’ru, ka ma gba’gbe ojo ti o mu omo eni if the dictionaries won’t be stingy to share not because I know Mariam, Oxford or a long man I should be put […]

ready your gun oh soldier the brew cup is all dried up the bar must be empty now the market has become a brothel for vultures and men who have taken our women their children and all the booze there is no better way to humiliate a man than to rob him of family to […]

the sun had packed, and was heading home the children were making fire for the night’s meal it was time for the older women to look for their missing animals when the world was to know peace then they came in their numbers, with whips, clubs, sacks the man that does not die today, would […]

You see times I tell you jokes you don’t laugh at and all the times I will flirt with your ego, it was a nuisance to me, it was a gnat. what I felt for you was soccer in Rio. do you know how water tastes in the morning? if you can tell then, I […]

from the teachings of the books that I learnt, read the gospel is to remind not to dictate not to hate, wage war or cause others to bleed don’t use tongues to take a life you can’t create? shouldn’t you be taking from your life for your death while you wait in faith for what […]

Live in this instance, love. Same wings sky high above once broke Start again, nested yoke. Learn, light a blunt and smoke, you’ll see Nothing is lost deep sea Unlearn, relearn and be, like air Move freely but play fair Fair love, feelings so clear, and true Almost a fluke but blue On this road […]

The course of true love has never been straight So, let’s make our own paths, forget people We are artists, it’s what we do, create Set apart from clichés, it’s our circle A pair of scissors, a love dummy, glue, Glitter tape, balloons, two cardboard papers A table large enough and clean for two We’ll […]

no one will forget the days I recall the hurt of slumber or smile of revenge i recall my heart you left in a mall for trespassers’ temptation to scavenge the sweet nights of bad dreams held in a room no one forgets my kite that never flew how you cut off its legs, later […]

my heart to you as a permanent loan ours should have been the wind – blowing freely until you left for Kenya on your own to explore, meet men who speak Swahili ours was supposed to be oil on water sinking and immediately rising but you let another be the plotter tick, tock, you were […]