My Sweetheart, How are you doing? Why am I asking this rhetorical question? I know it has been very hard for you since June 3rd2012. I know at this time you are inconsolable, but believe Read More
Jul 022012
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Jul 012012
The day is moss The night an interminable Agonized question. I look at the feathers In my hands And my eyes break In an African thunderstorm. My bird sings no more Alone she soars over Read More
Jun 282012
In tears I write this The memories of you give bliss These tears of mine They say different things At different times When your face comes up in my mind Which is like only every Read More
Jun 282012
I have tried to forget I have tried to block it out But it keeps playing itself It’s like the pictures from an album Flipping…flipping…flipping itself I don’t want to see those beautiful children With Read More
Jun 282012
The rising sun smiled shyly, Like a mischievous prankster With a dirty joke up his sleeve. Prophets watched the day with suspicion. The wind howled ominously, Like the wail of a banshee. Morning Read More
Jun 282012
By Salatu Sule (For every person who knows the taste of grief) The news Slams into me Rips through my soul Scatters my dreams Desperately, I struggle To gather them Confused Hurting Blindsided I Read More
Jun 282012
By Philip U. Effiong I subdued clash of wind with concrete, light metal with rough tar, flesh on eternal greed, idiocy with feigned wisdom, blood with innocence we chant… homage to fiery entombment before Read More
Jun 282012
Hey man, you are on board of the fate, sketched by someone, visible to none but acknowledged by everyone. Tragedy of the ill-fated flight is only an excuse of your exit. Certainly taking-off is Read More
Jun 282012
In the blinking of an eye their lifelong desires, destinations and endeavours reduced to fearful fire, spiraling smoke, abysmal debris and flesh in fission, making them appalling mechanical mixture. From most blessed and blissful Read More
Jun 282012
“This is the final boarding call for all passengers going to Lagos!” the voice of the female automaton blared from the loudspeakers of the public address system. I looked grudgingly up from the page of Read More
Jun 282012
by Adebowale Adejugbe —————————————————————————— ‘Mors Certa, Hora Incerta’ – ‘Death is certain, its hour is not’ The important thing is not to stop questioning. – Albert Einstein —————————————————————————— I took my bath hurriedly that morning, Read More
Jun 282012
BY BIYI SIMOYAN. Abuja, it was Friday, June 1st 2012, a normal morning, with bright sunny weather, ten minutes to 7 a.m. in the morning. I was at the local wing of the airport. The Read More
Jun 262012
“…and I yeEEEARGGHHHHHH!” He starts awake; drenched in sweat. He looks around wildly for a bit before calming down; recognizing his surroundings. His chest heaves; his breathing labored. He calms down and Read More
Jun 242012
The rescue team has concluded its mission One hundred and forty-four bodies recovered the ones not found may fashion out their own graves in hell or make do with the comfort of feeling other Read More
Jun 202012
He went missing on a cold Sunday morning; as if to remind the world that he was warmth itself. I did not need reminding. He left, and no matter the many layers of clothing that Read More
Jun 192012
Ibrahim leveled the gun at Konji, and then squeezed the trigger. Click. Konji woke up from its early afternoon snooze and nodded involuntarily at the visitor. Ibrahim imagined reprising the act with Sergeant Udoji, Read More
Jun 192012
In the morning… Let not dark death glory yet In the taking of our kin We shall be made celestial bodies We shall hold their hands and cry for joy In the morning our saints Read More
Jun 192012
What happens to a dream denied? Does it blow up Like the church in Bauchi? Or crash on buildings Like the plane in Lagos? Does it become dull like the minister’s report? Read More
Jun 182012
I. Aspiration He will captain this green ship of millions So tells the young mind that weaves this vision She will be the emancipator of her kind When Time clothes her with her mummy’s age Read More
Jun 172012
Don’t lament Never forget The blood unseen And the cause unknown Don’t lament The parts in piece And the dreams in rubble (Where now will they find their peace?) Never forget The Read More