I am bird who believes in freedom, but I’m haunted every day. My life is an adventure with horrible tales as landmarks for my scars tells my story & my happiness dampens my grief.
SET ME FREE… by Isaiah Fada
Held bound, Captive to fate, Helpless with no sound, Closed up by the gate, No one to set me free... Locked up in chains, Bated in pains, Took all my...
GREEN LIBYAN by Victor Igiri
How can the flower blossom when the Garden ebbs in cancer? Who will notice our tears in dark rains to restore? ...and whose hands will saviour who dines unsublime? Today...
PAUSE AND THINK by Maxwell Onyemaechi Opia-Enwemuche
Pause and think How long shall we continue to slave? Where are the best brains that will help us and think? When are we going to seek light out of...
I LONG TO BE LIKE THAT EAGLE by Oluwaseun Shedrack Akodu
I long to be like that Eagle To be lingered far above To soar beyond the sour here. Greatly-Winged with the wits of glory Is the Eagle. .. l long...
MY BLOOD WEEPS by Joseph Omojuwa
My blood sings, my blood weeps! For my countenance has fallen. A song no one can interpret, For if I hear, and then I am dead. My blood cries vengeance...
I WANT TO FLY by El Sane Ken Silencer
Endsville nature, the twinking of the sky sparkling, flippers in awe flipping... I want to fly, for my neck is tired of watching the sky and the awful cloud... I...
TO THE GREAT COMRADES by Ayeyemi Taofeek
Forerunners on the field of struggle Birthing freedom willingly or smuggled. Their comradeships ain't infantry nor half done Their comradeships ain't fake nor still born. They're dogged and unflinchingly gallant,...
FREEDOM, THE PATH OF HISTORY: by Ayodeji A. Adeyemi
(In honor of victims of slavery while it lasted International Day for the Abolition of Slavery) Toiling and thumping in the pains of history freedom they say was all we...
IJA OMINIRA: Abiola Inioluwa Oluwaseun
Keeeeeeere o! Haven't you smelt it, The butt of the gods, stinking? Haven't you perceived Their barren souls Like a rotten egg? What's the fate of that belly Which drank...