Memories of your love draw me to a time when nothing else mattered in this world but the sparkle of undisguised joy in your eyes each time we met. I was the one who refused to believe in true untainted love until you graced my life path with your faithful kindness, patience, and generosity … Continue reading The Final Kiss
Sunday 3rd of June In the year 2012 A cloud of tragedy Envelopes Nigeria And Africa When passengers Numbering 153 Perish after The Airlines Flight 9J-992 from Abuja To Lagos plunges Life has its own Turns and Twist For life is a A capricious cloud And a treacherous Journey Along potholes of Travesties, Trials … Continue reading Let the Hearts Heal
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 me, time heals all wounds and God will comfort you in His own special way. Recall that whenever I travelled, … Continue reading Letter To My Sweetheart
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 the happy isles Unwoven from the string of Isis. My life in no more. Whatever goes shall return –John Anusie … Continue reading The Bird (a poem for the Dana Air Victims)
The silhouettes Of pure Tiffany lamp Pours from her innocent Crystal eye balls Within the weak shutters Of collapsed windows Pitching my ears high With sad memories tumbling Crescent blue waves Into symphonies of weeping sonnets Am killed to a ghastly sense of grief And my plenty nose Dies of the sweet smell … Continue reading Why
Now, the plane had crashed But the echoes are still around Blazing like a fire in the harmattan All our houses are on fire Tears cover our faces as we mourn. The plane had crashed The dana-coffin lay quiet, crumbled! And the crash’s audience dispersed Each armed with a different story. It’s no lie; … Continue reading Dana Tears
For Dana who took our loved ones to a place where they are smiling – I hope… IMMORTALITY I take in of several breaths expelling them in verses where I sing your fame praying the words blot out what shame mortality robes us all with in hope of blessed sanctity where you would lie … Continue reading IN MEMORIAM (Two poems from Bring Our Casket Home)
So the first time we met I did not care for him much Thought he was obnoxious And very aware of his looks Could not understand it His effect on the other girls Then he began to affect me I envied the attention he got He was nothing special But the other girls blushed when … Continue reading Happenings I Cannot Understand
I woke up this morning Filled with so much longing People I needed to see My day mapped out before me My brother’s tying the knot I’ve missed him a whole lot So I’m back in the area My country called Nigeria Though turbulence is rife This has become my life I need work, love … Continue reading Dayscare
He had gotten a call from her; she wanted to see him. After 14years of silence, it had been an obligation to meet with her. Age had treated her well but her eyes told a different story. They were twin pools, filled with sadness that threatened to draw him in. Her eyes were the first … Continue reading Redemption.
Seat 21C was the aisle seat five rows down, Kemi took it. Chioma and the others occupied the three rows in front of her. Kemi smiled when she noticed that Maimuna was seated across the aisle from her; who wouldn’t want to keep a close eye on a stranger – even if she looked entirely … Continue reading Higher Ground – Part 2
She’s been on a journey Just one of so many And right now she’s headed home She’s a house wife Her family her life On a trip to see her mum He’s a young man The pride of his clan On one of his hustling trips He’s old and rich Round like sandwich … Continue reading Last Prayer
Maxwell ignored whatever it was his wife was saying and hurried down the stairs that led to the ground floor of their duplex residence with his leather bag hanging down heavily from his left shoulder. It was already 12:30pm, exactly thirty minutes to the time his flight was scheduled to take off, yet he was … Continue reading Just a Little More Moment
Look at faces Etched on them are grim looks Under the unction of June 3 forced down their constricted throat- A food their bellies despise to eat. I feel their smouldering pain. I feel the searing blazing heat Emanating from vicious faces, Stunning onlookers- sending them into jaded cries. They peek into … Continue reading June 3, 2012
I slept back home, expecting a husband cousin, friend, only to see them dead on national television. i will miss you. we together planned how life will be i will miss your smiles, your encouragement. i will miss you. i will miss you, my pastor. you, who brought people into the altar of God you … Continue reading Pains of a torn brother