Of things that will never fade
OF THINGS THAT WILL NEVER FADE
Yewande Adebowale · Of Things That Will Never Fade
There is a thing that will never fade
a caring heart that...
Makanjuola
Makanjuola
Darkness too thick to be called darkness
Emptiness, void
Nothing seems to make sense
Yet from the darkness, hope speaks
Makanjuola
How do I explain to hope?
That I have...
Numb-nimby
Numb-nimby
Not in my backyard,
yet.
leftover ruins shell by shell
impunious mounds pile by pile
deserted streets
as tribes decrease piece by piece
Izge weeps
first hit by camped scorn
Chibok mourns...
A Place Where Dreams Lead
A PLACE WHERE DREAMS LEAD
Take me to a place where dreams lead
To the Olumirin waterfall*
Let me drown all my sorrows
Communing with Osun the river...
The Matriachal Order
The Matriachal Order
Bound by hands and feet
as a patient in an asylum
Mother leads the troop of the matriarchal order
into our humble abode
Blades rusted in...
Voices from the abyss
Voices from the abyss
I wake up in the morning sounding like a cosmic colossal catastrophe
About to unfold
I wake up every morning with a different...
Of time, of age and other fleeting things
Of time, of age and other fleeting things
Do you never tire
of the slow motion of a constant stroke or of the tick-tock
of Olympian detachment?
On...
Irredeemably incompatible
Irredeemably incompatible
I once lived with a chronically incompatible couple
they were square-peg-and-round-hole disqualified
living under a sole roof
chronicling divergence
they were an exception -
the unlike poles that...
Colour of hope
Colour of hope
I looked over my shoulder one day
over a vast vivacious field filled with people just like me
on a day that the sun...
