THANK YOU, CHURCH by Stefn Sylvester Anyatonwu
I was hungry and you formed a committee and you discussed my hunger and you paid yourselves to talk about my hunger. Thank you. I was imprisoned and you crept...
BENUE BESIEGED by Victor Igiri
Are we humans or Animals? Maybe both, but I may choose the latter for with drought eyes swollen from a marathon tears I wear, and thorned a flesh, can you...
FORGIVE AND FORGET by El Sane Ken Silencer
They say crying is good For the heart, but... This is why I swallow pains To remain a man: Mother told me evenly I want to forgive, I should not...
LOOK by Ewuola Damilola Michael
Look, I'm calm, I'm not armed But I have a voice –a very faint voice But please hear me out before I pass out. Look, look again, I am bleeding...
BEYOND THE SHORES by Okeke Chukwudi
2017 was a year of clarity A year of surprises Strangers became friends Friends became family A year of memories A year of wonder We learnt to take our first...
WORLD OF OUR OWN by El Sane Ken Silencer
Nowadays, we are born to burn the world... Time is gone when sinner himself, decides to go to Church only when he want to repent. This a day we dress...
PRATTLE LIKE A RATTLE by Ewuola Damilola Michael
Blades clinging and shields clashing Bones breaking and soldiers stabbing Yet you prattle like a rattle While others labor and battle. Faces burnt by the sun's scorching And palms torn...
ONE NIGERIA by Victor Igiri
(written in absolute dislike for Nigeria's splitting…) Paint me White, not RED; Green, I beseech thee still and entomb every dark desires that kings your soul. Paint me Green, not...
THE LOST by El Sane Ken Silencer
You see them mad, They are always murmuring; talking to a ghost, unseen, with voiceless voices, unheard with much in serious seriousness- they move like heaven, so far, is their...
I AM YOUR SIGN, YOUR WONDERS, AND YOUR MIRACLE by Joshua Levites
My eyes are your signs, Your Good news; Years, You were hidden to emotions, A gentile of love. You lived unworthy Of the promises of affection. Until you found grace...