Stuck In Love (Part 3)

Stuck in the ecstasy that each heartbeat shares.

Stuck In Love (Part 2)

Stuck, not in stagnation, but a gentle flow,

DISGUISED

DISGUISED …and, how do we even get here? Once, you couldn’t even look evil in the face. Your virtue was the standard for maidens. Lads came around you for godly insight into the future. I remember you carried an infant and showered on her, grace. Yours was a robe of honour, a celebrated elegance... You …

Poetic Reminiscence

#30daywritingchallenge #day16 Task: Something that you miss Read this: In this darkness, something creeps to my soul Shredding my flesh to a desire beyond my control I am fighting this fog of hopelessness erupting within I am venting liquid fire, for my heart is bleeding What I am born to hate is the passion I …

BEYOND THESE HANDS

For there is a bloody covering, hovering my sight And threatening to choke me till I purge

OJUJU

You scare fragile minds And you confuse our curiosity—nice one, brother!

THE BATTLE SO FAR VI

In this battle, one thing was sure, I...would...suffer! Or not...

OLUNMI XIII

OLUNMI XIII Olunmi, You are mystery. My mystery. Love do not fail, love heals. But, do love resurrect from self–caused death? The first time I saw you, you hover within. You came with eyes melting and fusing. You crashed behind the tree of hope All I saw – Young, ill-luminated, wandering but hopeful lady A …

BROKE

BROKE Can I do this please…right now, right here? Because my eyes are full, fooled by me My heart, right now, is beating fast My foot is racing, facing up, backwards I want to be real, back-in-time I want to count the days, in reverse I will take two moments in one, Faster, Behind…. Can …

THE CODE

THE CODE I promise myself a serene but subtle ride with him. In fact, I am dumb...and deaf! It is over, Olu is going down. Today! *** Somewhere along Ibadan-Iwo road, an eighteen-seaters bus is sighted. The driver's eyes are bloodshot. 'Some things went wrong,' he had hinted the gentleman seated beside him. He is …