When will it sink, That three eggs Can never smothen rough edges. Clading in overall white dresses Will never get all issues addressed. And several hours in a night for prayers Does not signify a breakthrough from trials. Listen! The pen has been lifted. And the pages dried and hung. The Master crafter has…
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I alighted from a tricycle, patronized a motorcyclist on the other side of the road to further the crucial trip. Less than two minutes into the zoom, we encountered a road block actuated by some dark men in dark attire. “Where is our money?” one of them cried out. “Officer, I paid to the…
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Welcome to the twenty-first century. Connections are wireless and cars are driverless, but the most Imperial of changes that hit the century -and ruefully so- is that of the attitude with which the problems plaguing the world are approached. It’s become the Vogue that when problems rear their heads, rather than find a…
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When the sky cracks apart dispersing like snowflakes When stars fall on earth shattering like shards The Sun loses its light and the earth crumbles. When the seas and rivers, the oceans and lakes wraps into one another reduced to nothingness The mountains, valleys and rocks goes puff! When life is given…
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What makes a birthday is the passage of time: the tick of seconds that metamorphoses into minute; the rotation of hours that brings about day; the count of weeks that leads to month; and of course, the cycle of months that results in the day and/or date of birth. Isn’t it worth rolling…
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The world may be better. If we never had any hope in it. If we were never taught to hold so tight If we never believed it’s do or die. If only we were told of possible hopelessness. And warned to be weary of despair. The world could be better. If we were…
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Men shouting Allah Akbar In Borno, -and I mean; in villages where death is only a qiblah faced five times a day, First, when the sky is an ocean of darkness, and a pinkish-orange glow appears from nowhere, like a foundling carved out of onyx, A faint beam of hope flickers for a moment…
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He was a senior colleague. He received me with warmth when I got absorbed for the job. He would sometimes give me thousands from his monthly meagre earnings for reasons only known to him. He portrayed the character of a caring, eleemosynary person, and I fell for the lust that seemed like love. Few…
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This is for the one who wishes her heart could be read. For he who wishes mind could be read. Those who crave help, screaming, yet silent. For all whose trauma cannot be explained. And those whose mouth is too light for the heavy words. Here is the good news, That your wishes has…
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BEING A TEACHER PAYS If I would be availed another life on earth, I would love to live as a teacher, for it really pays to impart from one’s reservoir. It’s fulfilling to impact lives via knowledge dissemination. But there is no such second time, unfortunately; it all ends once like life in the…
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