They lied when they told us a man must first die
Before seeing either heaven or hell.
Because they are palpably alive with us here.

Hell is neither beneath us nor heaven above.
They meet on our street side […]

The most apt metaphor to describe
My beautiful country, Nigeria, is darkness.
Black is beautiful, as our complexions are dark.

It is so dark in here because there is no light.
It is the kind of darkness that […]

We are in a country
Where poetry or rhetoric does not matter.
What matters really is flattery.
Sycophancy!
So my people are now like:
Any-government-in-power;
Anywhere-belly-face
Because what really matters […]

I am many things but confused
I know myself in depth
But somehow have I lose grip
On issues that concern me
And even though I so much want to,
To take control,
I really can’t have it.
So for a start, you c […]

all over,

submerged
in the depth
of so much
black gold,

to suffocate
in the thick,
dark richness.

Upstairs, I peek at your picture.
I know I shouldn’t but there, you are.
Something keeps pulling me back
To catch just one more eye of your beauty.
O Helen of Troy, queen of Laconia
Whose beauty brought Troy […]

The greatest comedy of all
Was at her funeral-
Mma Uneghe.
The old woman lived for a long, long time
In isolation
And kicked the bucket of abandonment.

They called her “witch”
She was old, unkempt, […]