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29 Sep 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium
Mama calls me her little princessPapa tells me I am the most beautiful girl to him She tells me to not be sadThat my eyes are prettyAnd my face is perfectShe says I have to be beautiful on the inside too But I got to the outside worldand people cal...
29 Sep 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium
Sinfully righteousI'm the perfect child for comparisonsMy mother tells her friendsThat her child is nothing but exceptional My father tells his colleaguesThat he has raised the best of offspring;Obedient and respectful Who will tell themThat their...
29 Sep 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Khaleb
Reactions have trailed the Central Bank of Nigeria’s announcement and proposal to launch the e-Naira, Nigeria’s digital currency. The first being that despite the country’s ban on cryptocurrency-related activities, it has gone ahead with a product t...
28 Sep 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium
Streamside meetings at sunsetButterflies making trades with flowersAs I avoid your gaze shyly - fiddling with my handsAnd causing ripples with the flowing waters You speak words of love and my heart beats fastMy thoughts run wild, my face muscles t...
27 Sep 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Olawalium
Sometimes, I want to get lostdeliberately and with charismaI won't regret this decisionAt least with my present state of mind I love the way it feelsTo escape - then not have a destinationJust walking along with my mind scatteredAnd my instincts in...
26 Sep 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Olawalium
I remember the Saturday night I first met youYou stood by the lone bridgeAnd you stared down at the still water underneathWhatever you must have hadgoing on in your mind, I couldn't tellBut at that momentYou looked like something out of a picture A...
26 Sep 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Olawalium
First sight at the earthThe journey begins, small gentle stepsFrom crawling to standing and finally to walkingDestiny starts to unfoldIt's left to fate, hard work and providenceTo let this destiny come to fulfilment Life's first cry to final breath...
26 Sep 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Hello, My name is Amoobi. I am a Nigerian songwriting student, currently studying at the Escuela de Cantautoristas de Pablo Smog in the dangerous port city of Veracruz, Mexico. I arrived several months ago on a songwriting visa supposedly issued by...
25 Sep 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium
In my countryThere are learned hyenasWith fancy robes made of silkNo one gets as rich as themThey are at the helms of powerThey make the law, they make the people conform to themIlliterates ruling literates - What an irony! In my countryThere are r...
25 Sep 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium
I want to live and leave this worldAs one who fought and lived her dreamsI want to burn brightly and blindlyAs I lit paths for othersAnd show myself to the world I want to live like a flame that burns brightlyAnd shine like I should, till I wilt gl...
