A reminder to all to take pride in being themselves.

This fiction is a rejoinder to the article titled “Puberty complaint” ( http://bit.ly/IcKKE2 ) about a fourteen years old boy “Emeka Ohameze” who wrote to God, complaining about developing sexual desires. This act (in his own opinion) goes against his faith in God. The story ended with a letter response from God.
I couldn’t resist the temptation of thinking about a possible statement from Satan in a bid to secure his presence in the mind of the boy.
Please enjoy…..
It was his only chance to get out alive. He jumped out the window, knowing the entrance to the flat was surrounded. ….And he ran like he had never run before! The memories of the [...]
This article (inspired by the recent Egyptian revolution) is an attempt to captures the emotions attached to stimulation a revolution, which I feel is relevant especially in our current state as a nation (Nigeria).
One underlying idea runs through all the lines:
every thought has the ability to change the world.
Tribute to Michael Jackson.
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Think of a life; think of a melody
everyone is a Beat
A Beat is the sound that we bring
It is the sound of our work
as we till the earth for substance
It is the sound of our essence
the sound we make during interactions
Each Beat is who we are
An appearance of similarity
embodied in perfection
Although this poem was inspired by a very good friendship I have built over the internet, it attempts to depict how digitalization has changed the structure of relationships.
Instant messenger, facebook, blackberries have changed it all to an extent where we feel connected to people we don’t even know.

The love between two people can be explained using the general idea of the movie “Avatar”. The idea behind this poem is to explore how that transformation occurs to the extent when two different individuals become fused;
begin the see the world from each others eyes;
in other words becomes the other’s Avatar.