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A Feathered Soul 7 May 2013 | 12:58 am
Soul is such a jaded word. But, because of you I connected with mine today. Yes, after a long long time. I woke up to see this tiny feathered creature in a glory of green and blue sitting on the … Con...
Rainy Nairobi 6 May 2013 | 01:39 am
Nairobi’s been raining on me since dawn. The drizzle in my heart matches the rhythm of the one that falls outside. Ominous clouds still loom in the distance across the rows of electrical lines, and, o...
Déjà Vu 22 Mar 2013 | 01:47 am
A slow, dark rain falls. Load shedding, candlelight, And, a bad cold aided by spiked sangria Make me nostalgic for another night in another land When a rainy spring night could make a lotus bloom. Thi...
Unknown Depths 27 Jan 2013 | 03:29 am
I have an ache in my heart as I look at the ocean. The setting sun seems to be almost soaking in it, while the sea of a quarter and a half life’s crisis stares at me out of a … Continue reading →
A Fickle Heart 12 Oct 2012 | 12:48 am
All I really needed was you. Yet, I’ve erased you out of my books now. But, I’m still on your case. When I’m no longer even looking for you in every corner of every street. My fickle heart seems to … ...
The Song of Forgetting 6 Sep 2012 | 02:20 am
Forgetting means to see things as they are not Of trying to remember a time before I knew you. I try to remember a time when I never knew Of what’s lost to me in trying to let go of … Continue reading...
Circle of Memory & Riddle of Life 24 Jul 2012 | 08:20 am
Do memories have shapes? Like small words with big bubble shaped meanings? Or, like the weird shape of a foreign country on the atlas? Have you ever been spooked by one that hit you like a bullet, ...
Whenever It Rains 22 Jul 2012 | 08:42 pm
The morning sun squints at a half-opened eye, A raindrop shines. Lying in bed I wonder why we dole out more love to some people over others, We complaint sometimes that life is unfair, but aren’t w...
Will It Rain? 12 Jun 2012 | 05:52 am
A summer night in Lagos, Heat evaporates from the Gravel that I have paced For a month now. The stillness outside Is dulled by the generator’s droning. A sudden lizard’s screech Sends a chill d...
Silence 16 Apr 2012 | 06:56 am
Let me be silent tonight, since the one who matters has ceased to hear what is true. Let me be silent tonight, because the one who should see has been blinded from inside. Let me be silent tonig...
