Olawalium
Olawalium

Olawalium

God's son. Giver. Motivational Speaker. Relationship coach. Writer. Poet. Football lover...


Friendship

25 Oct 2020 1 minute read 6 comments Olawalium

​Image Source.​​​ It takes two to tango, far beyond words and feelings, far beyond lines and rhythms, but in mutual agreement and exchange of hearts, the art and act of friendship are established.   It takes two ties to make a knot, beyond mistakes...

Nigeria: Then, Now & Later...III

24 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

​Image Source.​​​ Our fatherland is now a farther land, our motherland is now a land of murders and murderers. Yet no place like home, where do we run to? Speaking up was supposed to be a norm, but who dares to when the worms in our stomachs feed g...

Nigeria: Then, Now & Later...II

24 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

​Image Source.​​​ Again, even after independence, we got in dependence on other countries, ten years, twenty years, thirty years, even up till fifty years gone, and there were no traces of change, we hoped that at sixty, we will arise from our sick...

Nigeria: Then, Now & Later.

24 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

​Image Source.​​​ Dear Nigerians, the battle between the SARS and the mass of youths, has gotten my heart heavy with pregnancy, and I have to bear the pain of labour with an emergency.   Green white green was the code, right from time immemorial; t...

We Fought, II.

23 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

​Image Source.​​​ We drank the blood of our forefathers mixing their revenge filled blood with ours the holy anger in us is burning and consumed the little shreds of mercy left in us Our indigenous colonialists who have nothing but guns for the hun...

We Fought.

23 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

​Image Source.​​​ And we fought with the monster of the society and our blood became painting for walls and streets raw and hot, freezing fire, horrifically attracting and we danced to the sorrowful rhythm we hummed to the desperate whispering of t...

Lovely Birthday Message.

22 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

I received so many lovely birthday messages and I totally enjoyed every single one of them. This is one sent by a lady I met not more than 6 months. She is super young but with a huge presence and matured words. I am always excited when people feel...

This Isn't The Country.

22 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

​Image Source.​​​ This isn't the country I have come to love Our loyalty to the curb they have shove Lives matter less now, not up to a kobo Everyone running shelter skelter to take cover Mother lost her child, a lady lost her lover Father's braver...

Break.

22 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

I took a break from writing for the first time in a long while yesterday. I didn't make a single new post. I didn't even scribble down anything. Not for lack of words to speak or muse but due to the overwhelming situation of Nigeria.   It is hard t...

We Move!

19 Oct 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Olawalium

​Image Source.​​​ They don't care about us so we watch out for ourselves We allowed things go for far too long, so wrong We kept quiet in the face of oppression We took money just to hide our confession We allowed them throw us into confusion Suffe...