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DEATH IS A FRIEND YOU WILL DIE SOON You paused and probably said God forbid. Maybe it was because you were scared, annoyed, or...

Exhale and Breathe
Sometimes you find yourself in life’s death gripStill fighting battles you thought you would have overcomeStill searching for answers to questions long overdueStill vexed by...

Post Script
Mum is flitting about again, washing and cooking and cleaning and cleaning again. The house smells like a bakery, and not a hair is out...

Yes You!
Yes You, I am scared. Daniel never replied. ...

Love at first sight?
He walked into the room and suddenly….blood rushes towards my head. My eyes widen at their own command, the air conditioner is nothing compared to...

Hope the Party of World Won’t End in Shame?
We read a narrative essay during our primary school days, I don’t know if you remember it or read it at all. I can’t...

hurt.
Now Playing- Johnny Cash ‘Hurt’ TW- Suicide I did it again. I crossed to the tuck shop opposite Mama Bimbo, brought out my rumpled hundred...

Mandla
Dear Diary, The day is bright, is bright and fair Oh, happy day, the day of rest, The day is bright; it’s bright and fair...

Perceptions and Living
“I’d always wanted to be an ambassador for NIVEA but now, I give up. How would they choose this over me?” lamented Toyin as she...

The Type of Friend You Shouldn’t Be (II)
Humans thrive on relationships, and so it just makes sense that the hinges of our relationships with people are well oiled. Ororo dey my pen, so...

LIFE IS NEVER A BED OF ROSES
Life never goes the way you want it to and I learnt that the hard way. I thought I had it all and in...

What is Life?
Life is a duration between birth and death, Life is not perpetual but diminished like smoke, Life is a mystery that...

How to die empty: A step-by-step guide for homo sapiens
When last did you think of the terror of death? Today? Yesterday or minutes ago? More often, I think of how to fulfil my purpose...

20 Lessons I’ve Learnt In The 20 Years I’ve Walked This Earth.
I turned 20 today. 🥳Now I know some might think, that’s still young. But it’s 20 years. 20 years I have walked this earth. I...

Life Really Is Pointless Huh!
You ever think life is just pointless. Like there is not much to life than just existing. You ever sit down and think about what...

The Path
THE PATH I was lost but i trusted in The Path. I hoped the path would somehow end in the start where i would...

ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING
CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE, CHANGE YOUR LIFE. by: Jeff Keller The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering...

Ooops! Drop your Albatross?
Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the ancient Mariner” talks about a group of sailors who had set out on sea. In the course of their...

On Why The Universe Plays Favorites Sometimes
Isn’t it weird how time just stands still for one person? Or that the universe delays it’s actions by seconds, minutes, one heavily pleaded for...

7 TIPS TO MAINTAIN GOOD MENTAL HEALTH DURING COVID-19
The start of Covid-19 came swifter than you could say hey! Shopping, travel, school, working, or sports all essential of our lifestyle, all came to...

Stop being shy of your Hustle
You are not new to the fact that different things happen to people on a daily and also to the fact that we all have...

Agony Aunt.
Rich and respected. Successfully secure. Independent and very influential. Gifted in looks and aesthetic endowments. This acquaintance who’s substantial abundance. Was procured at the expense...

When I’m gone
The only person in the world that could bring down Annie from the edge of that rooftop was lying in a mortuary cooler just a...

Alter Ego.
I remembered a boy in my class named “Anu”, The dude as I could remember was a deviant he didn’t believe in what most people ...
Unheard-of
There’s a Serial rapist in my town who claims over 50 victims every year by infiltrating people’s houses. The fact that no one believes them,...

Good Things of Life
More than just sleeping and waking,I want the good things of life. Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful for sleeping and waking. It’s a miracle...

Life isn’t A Piece of Creamy Cake 2
Life isn’t a Piece of Creamy Cake 2 I hear a loud call,Six feet below, from Mother Earth. Weeping profusely, thinking sleep would save me,the...

Life isn’t A Piece of Creamy Cake
*Life isn’t A Piece of Creamy Cake* It’s been so hard,terribly impossible,keeping track of what is, what was and what would be. Embracing every stone...

LIFE: A PEANUT-FILLED CHOCOLATE BAR
It was another day but it was one I would never forget. Life had managed to give me a wound that could never be healed....

FIGHT
Sometimes You Feel Like Your Head Is UnderwaterThe Current Threatening To Carry You OffYou Are Tempted To Go With It, Flow With It Then You...

Hibernation
The cold grip of winter assails my soulA numbing emptiness devoid of warmthMy heart is cold. My eyes steel.My calculative mind assesses allOnce was there...

O Imperfect Love Despairing
O IMPERFECT LOVE DESPAIRING LOVE !!!. I was told you were a beautiful thingButterflies, sunflowers and blue skiesEndless, fruitful and fullRapid heart beats, kisses and...
Into my mother’s shoes
Into My Mother’s Shoes. Suddenly, I became my mother,I could see the load she carried.I felt it now, the shackles, bounds and cage that kept...

BEHIND THE SMOKING MIRROR
I am not saying, I am a saintBut when the atmosphere is noxious I know the scent,The mitigation to this trend, I know to...

FEAR
Don’t lay hold of me so I can lay hold of me.Leave, Fear, let me be who I always am.Let there be Light to dispel...

COMFORT ZONE
Many as seen it as a place of rest, a place to settle and feel relax, majority has made their comfort zone their final stop...

Forever In Time
Darling, you are my life. My hope and faith. You are the reason why the stars still shine bright in the dark crevices of my...

Just breathe!
It’s all temporary, this moment you thinking, that moment you are not, sometimes you try to figure it out but nothing seemed to be the...

Routine
He wakes up and performs his morning rituals,He ties his shoelaces and walks to schoolOn his way, he sees the women sweeping the leaves on...

TRUST THE PROCESS TO REACH YOUR GOALS
TRUST THE PROCESS TO REACH YOUR GOAL It was really difficult to decide what this piece should be about. I knew what I wanted to...

The Nigerian Music: Noise
In one of his famous songs, Ariwo Ko, Adekunle Gold, a Nigerian singer and songwriter chorused “Ariwo ko ni Music…” This line appeared about 9...

My translation: Death to Life
Upon a life I did not live, Upon a death I did not die. Another’s life Another’s death I stake my whole eternity Believing by...

Quest of knowledge
Sometimes, it’s best to ask to know for yourself and you alone! It can be very difficult living in an environment that even before birth...

LEAKING ROOF
Judith barely slept last night. She left the hospital around 12:00am and while preparing a file, she slept off on her desk. Back in her...

WE WON’T FADE INTO DARKNESS
WE WON’T FADE INTO DARKNESS (Inspired by T.J. Benson’s Collection of Short Stories with the Same Name as Above) We won’t be caught in a...

Portal of Angels
I want to take a peer into eternal realmsI set out to sail across the vast sea of lifeWhere walls don’t exist and mortal men...

THE ILLUSION OF INSPIRATION
Humans are creatures of need and necessity. We are a hodgepodge of desires that are sometimes even at odds with our aspirations. We are essentially...

Don’t Be Deceived, Our World is Dying
Planet Earth is dying all around us on a scale not seen since the annihilation of the dinosaurs. That’s the alarming finding of a new...