Aren’t we all in birthday suits? Adam and Eve were lucky they were covered with leaves! Our own privacy is nakedness! We go about running from pillar to post, yet hardly finding true meaning of our beings! Would it be right to say, All men are equal? An emphatic no! Equality of man is but an…
Ajegunle – with unlivable, ramshackle palaces, kids playing in cesspits, since the place lacks, even, simplest of amenities – remains a banter, where our new jungle cities are! Even the dead, dead as dodo, get deprived of eternal rest or unrest, graveyards must be reclaimed, and give way to skyscrapers! Sleeping waters are woken, reclamation…
Like a tiger;With quiet anger!Stealthily and silently;Till it’s timely! Biding their timewith magazine smiles,frustrated they are,because they lack! Land of plenty;Many are thirsty,masses kwashiorkoredsince they lack nurture! Oblivious of mass suffering,few haves go partying!Our Rome is burning,powerful are fiddling! Who’ll prevent quiet stormfrom its snaky venom?Solution very pedestrian:Masses should dignity earn! @as 060125
Some uncouth fellow; opens their trap; says they to a k-legged; your load’s askew! Man, tired, famished, undernourished; in exasperation, replies, look at my physique! Babies in womb; if not in apparent denial, know most of our problems; stem from the roots! With situation unfounded; human lives scattered; we imbibe petulantly; fabulous absurdities! Deceits are our…
By Adewale Sobowale When a masquerader chases you, whip-clad: Just persevere as there’s no monopoly of fatigue: It happens to earthlings, just like extraterrestrials! There’s this peace, silence – graveyard-like! While few moneybags enjoy commonwealth! Poverty-ridden majority – live in squalor! Few escape into refugeedom! Majority attempt escaping, squalid life, organizing, mobilizing into groups fighting…
You have to set forthat the genesis of a new day like dawn,a spirit forming within you till you let it halve you,till you let it have you,all that are fully grown,good feelings you never can tell. Till you let it make you, the theatre for its dramatic performance and everyone, the spectators for this…
Photo credit: Daily Mail Bode is reading about a couple of Nigerians who meet in Benin city on their way to cross the Sahara Desert in the process of getting to Europe through the Mediterranean Sea. The story is a very interesting one of adventure, trafficking, betrayal and what have you. The guy, Tony is…
