When you die
When you die, The world doesn't stop The bird who sang by your window Does not sing a mournful tune It's totally oblivious of its loss of audience The
Waiting
Waiting is sad if you do not know what you are waiting for, worse still, if you realise too late that you were waiting for the train right after it leaves the station
Needful Things
Family To run to or run from but just enough to map, your personal piece of earth. Friends Who will not scare away your lurking shadow when the curtain closes. Happiness Self measured.
If I am in your heart
If I am in your heart, how come I do not I feel it. I figure I should be warm and tinkling over from all the furious pumping your heart has to do
The harmattan that felt different
January. The harmattan dust arrived like a virulent new strain of some long forgotten deadly virus. I got home one evening and it was just there, a thin film covering everything. Naturally, I
A failed exorcism...
I think about you a lot because you are always around me in the melody of the beautiful songs I listen to in a piece of poetry that strikes a chord Even when
A snapshot of Lavender's mind as I walked up to her
Lavender. My dear child, Some things in life are certain. The sun for instance, will always rise in the east. Some days it will yawn and stretch Some days it will bounce and
Lavender
Lavender. Her hair smelled like lavender. I promised I'd buy her a drink If she'd tell me her name. She smiled at me instead And I bought her drinks
In closing
At the end of the day some things matter poetry, music, love.
Eket 1.0 : Small town problems
Almost anywhere you need to go in this town Is a fifty naira bike away through a network of small roads with regular speed bumps and mean looking potholes. From home to the
The good death
I do not know if there is a good death but I know there are bad ones the worst is when you don't see it coming one moment you are smiling
Eket 0.5
Here it rains on Mondays - right at the break of dawn on Sundays too, so we stay home. It rains on sad days, happy days and even on days when we wear