Ofem Ubi

Candles

May 18 2018 , Written by Ofem Ubi Published on #poetry, #Edu-tension

Photocredit - Ufana Ishoyor We are society’s contraband, tomorrow’s leaders they say, But how can we lead when we’ve been disciple’s life long? When all we do is follow And never question the leader? When our bulbs are fire extinguished and we’re given...

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Find X

May 17 2018 , Written by Ofem Ubi Published on #poetry, #Edu-tension

Welcome, To the tension room In here, You take what you’re given without questioning the giver Wrong or right Believe me; it will help you live longer Swallow what you know For too much knowledge in here is not good, for your own good, so keep your wisdom...

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Wait-in-line

May 16 2018 , Written by Ofem Ubi Published on #poetry, #Edu-tension

School; School is the green word for mortuary, See as they sit in coffins disguised as classrooms look deep, how many mortuaries can you see? with corpses just too many breathing corpses, watch, as the teacher, reads out their eulogies in form of a lecture...

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Edu-tension

May 15 2018 , Written by Ofem Ubi Published on #Edu-tension, #poetry

photocredit - Adrian McDonald In this wall of a free prison You’re not told how to think but what to Come, take a tour round Allow me be your guide see the decay with me watch as we go extinct before time as we do the opposite of progress Stare at the...

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Sign Of The Times

May 13 2018 , Written by Ofem Ubi Published on #poetry

photocredit- Ubuntutalks Father told me all the signs of end time But never did he say you’d be one of them You are one of them, I wonder if he forgot, I wonder if he wanted me to find out with time The pale smile you often had on, The baldness in your...

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Scum

May 10 2018 , Written by Ofem Ubi Published on #poetry

photocredit - Unabashedafrica Not all men are scumNot all of us are Auto-body scannersNo, not all of us are heart-stoned Not all of us are dishonestNot all of us are ab-packedNot all of us are porn starsMonsters or barbariansNot all of us live on a codeine...

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Kiwi

May 9 2018 , Written by Ofem Ubi Published on #poetry

Kiwi; Kiwi is the word they would call you When you’re too black, Too black to be black So black they would call you dark Maybe you were baked from charcoal Or are your sins so dark they stain you? They would say, “the only thing bright about you are...

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X

May 8 2018 , Written by Ofem Ubi Published on #ForNostalgia

photocredit- Adrian McDonald You said you could bathe yourself, so mother let you to you wore slippers, each on the wrong foot you wasted the lux on your belly for you if the belly was clean, then every other part would be It made perfect sense then,...

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Art Student

May 7 2018 , Written by Ofem Ubi Published on #ForNostalgia

The WhatsApp beep woke you up a bit too early It was your class group, Donald had dropped a broadcast Yes, Donald the science student The one who held debates back in school The school prefect,Often he would make you feel like a remainderobtained from...

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Survival Instinct

May 6 2018 , Written by Ofem Ubi Published on #ForNostalgia

photocredit - Adrian McDonald “When I was your age, I used to take first, I was often the best in my class, Those that took first do they have two heads? ” You would stand cold with your second term’s result Father would spill his fury on you like oil...