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Survival Instinct
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...
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Chloro-quine...
Perhaps your smile was muted And your silence became too loud I could hear a tear kiss the floor after escaping the cage of your eyes Perhaps your bone is a cemetery where you bury yourself And your eyes are two moonlights begging to feel each other Perhaps...
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GODlike
Have you ever wanted to be God? Has your ever ached for power so much you wished you could take HIS place Relieve HIM of HIS duties Maybe you could impeach HIM You could be the bad egg in HIS crate of cabinet Or plan a coup d’état Like my country used...
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Deluxe
I remember the day you said HI And my goose bumps responded My tongue was too tied and twisted I stuttered every time I tried to utter a sentence So there I stood, stunned See I never knew beauty could breathe until I saw you And if the beautiful ones...
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Guillotine
I could feel tears rolling down my cheeks, as fear gripped me leaving me with enough pain, sorrows and suffering to pass time. I couldn’t help but cry out, I just lost my mom. What, where and how will I survive this, after silently crying for about half...
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First Experiences
I remembered that day only for a few years then the memories flew away listing in the bulky mess of my mind. A figure walked in unable to identify it, Smiled at me and said baby boy it's time to take a bath, I realised the figure is a woman my mother....
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Tell The Pulpit
Dear African Christian Why have you chosen to die before death? Why have you made your mini-hell before time Are you prepping for the future Already aware of your end For you serve in fear instead of freedom And you don't worship because HE'S faithful...
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Tell The Pulpit
Most Christians are hypocrites Read on and know why Cause we're too obsessed with image Too concerned with appearance that there's utmost decadence in the spirit The ladybird trousers is less spiritual And the man with a fro is too much a shame We would...
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Lapses
Nkechi said she has two soft rocks on her chestAnd a barrel of juice beneath;She’s scared that just like others,She will age soon with timeAfraid that soon she’ll loose her firmnessAnd become just like GenesisFormlessVoidlessJust like the beginningNkechi...
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SuperMan
photocredit- Adrian McDonald The day you finally get to answer a math question in class, you would get an applause for doing it so well Your fellow backseat boys would be proud of you, You saved the day You didn’t let the teacher soak them in embarrassment,...
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Distractions
The world will hear you When you hear yourself first Freeze the outside noise Mute all distractions, including yours You don’t need the stage to be heard, I repeat “you don’t need the stage to be heard” Become the voice; not the whisper Become the action;...
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Beauty Full
They say the beautiful ones are not yet born But I have understood that beauty is human And if we are not the beautiful ones, Then what are we? How beautiful is beauty anyways And how much does it take to be called one? In the struggle of searching for...
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Aqua
His love kicked a bucket His smiles began to elope gradually from his cheekbones His hands took the shape of a withered flower Little by little She wasn’t sure why She couldn’t tell why Why he grew cold feet All of a sudden Why his pick up lines began...
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Life Support
I see you, Lukewarm in color I hear your voice, It sounds like a mismatch of the original I see your eyes, They hold a scroll of secrets your tongue is afraid to unveil I know your dreams travel faster than your feet does And you carry the smell of history...
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The Sound Of Silence
The day you lay beneath the stars, Searching for the confluence between good and bad You’re not alone, You have your heartbeat beside you Listening to the sound of silence, With both hands locked behind your head You smile, Tickled by the passing moon...
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Either Ways
In the presence of your absence There’s an absence of your presence, In the absence of your presence There’s a presence of your absence, Either way there is something There’s always something Nothing ever misses Just a change of state A demise in positioning...
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I Pray
I pray you find love before love finds you, And that your wall turns into bridges Long enough to take you home Wherever that is, I pray your smile never gets beheaded And your hope beats the doubts in the dark I pray your clapback game is strong And that...
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Shorthand Laughter
My mother laughs in shorthand, She broadens her cheeks; Big enough to accommodate her worries and mine, She’s always a mouthful of rhetorical questions With a laugher so beautiful, So much it freezes time whenever she tries to It looks like for once the...
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Surgeon
You said you loved her Got her delicious meat pies that could only came from the fries of fiesta You said she was crunchy That she tasted like a slender piece of fried yam dried up by the heat of jealous ground nut oil You said you were different Unlike...
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Jollof
The first day you prepare meal at home, Is the day sand becomes a major cooking ingredient It will be rice, jollof preferably The very thing Ghana and Nigeria is yet to have safe grounds on Even though they know 9ja’s is best Now back to the main story,...
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EYE OF THE DRONE
From a building top I plunge down my eyes to earth And I see stream of souls swimming the streets Each with different thoughts as is their faces I see the old but smiling vegetable seller And the pump attendant of conoil making change for customers I...
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Rain
You ate to your fill that night, photocredit- Adrian McDonald Mother advised you use the bathroom She could see the moist future For “what an elder sees sitting, a child won’t see standing” At least so they say, this adage applied tonight You said you...
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Pepper
Once upon a time, photocredit- Adrian McDonald You didn’t pound the red gold Mother didn’t call you either, she did the chore herself She felt you would have common sense enough But common sense isn’t that common they say So you ate to your fill Went...
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Report-Card
Photocredit- Adrian McDonald Remember that day you had your school party? It was third-term, You were on the queue, waiting to get your “report card” You weren’t sure what you saw, so you cleaned your eyes to reaffirm the digits Yes, it wasn’t singular...
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DVD
You always wondered why it was called “bluefilm” When the scenes were normal compared to the regular, Lastweek, you joined the other class boys to watch what would later be your visual communion it was your first time the first of many more Today you’re...
