Headlamps in an afternoon Tell the story of an impending danger Till we find out otherwise It happened so often You don’t know what to do Headlamps in an afternoon Somewhere else it could be winter Fogs have to be broken through Tell the story of an impending danger Here we pray for false alarms […]

Is that what happens to beauty They are and tomorrow they are not It is the way of the seasons I wore high heels like on wheels And sped like i’m high on weeds Is that what happens to beauty Guess you get away with youth Blow your trumpet as loud They are and tomorrow […]

she believed in his eyes his nice gifts made her smile the world is hers to take she’s all he wants to see her father left early died with a low profile she turned her uncle’s cake life happens for a fee her first moan was of pains and tears kept her awake it was […]

There are only two options in life To take or leave Yes or no Live or die Eat or go hungry Love or hate War or peace Master or slave You cannot put One leg in the oven And the other In the fridge. Bose.

from a forced sleep to the struggles with the consent to wake from closed eyes to strained, to opened from a type of death to revival to earth the gift to walk, talk the gift to mourn, moan not be the one gone soon for light to guide at noon and to guide at night […]

of all I carry a sense of duty songs of sorrow right to riches my father’s eyes stand out from all the sight of a man carrying with him a sense of duty songs of sorrow hidden weaknesses plucking his riches starving his cravings working to stack enough not to lack of all that he […]

Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire Lamurudu birthed the myth of man the pride I wear as Ọmọ Odùduwà from Mecca, he found love in ile ife my father’s wisdom birthed Okanbi the lineage that remains the adimula that sits on the revered stool: the Ooni. ifa will never take a wrong step, and women have always taken the […]

I’m from the happiest state in Nigeria: Ipinle omiluabi – the land of virtue I’m from Ara (Egbedore LG) I’m Yoruba by tribe and dialect My people are mostly literate, travellers, bilinguals, family-oriented and farmers. The religious beliefs are Christianity, Islam & the Alami traditional worshippers. Rearing dogs is taboo – “Mobo Oosa Alara (the […]

The sanitary inspector Spread the campaign for communal cleanliness Throughout the red soil of the people before my arrival As a baby I wouldn’t know how a snake Employed itself as a security guard over me while i sleep For a land I heard are all great farmers The snake would have been protein for […]

Kind There are all sorts of beings From humans to the animal kingdom Birds of the air, fish in the sea The Lord makes them all Kind It happens so often That we meet kind people Who out of the milk of human kindness Do amazing things that we don’t deserve Bose.