This year? Next year!

My teeth rattles, the spaces between them aches, my flat stomach has no strength and I wanna get out of here. I feel so unlike myself. No soundness here, or there. (I just exaggerated there) Let me wake up in the new year! But that too, ehn? Holds things I don't understand. I don't even…

Happy Birthday!

The stars had to dim the lights The moon had to become fuller There was in the place a new presence He was the one who was spoken about The one, the ancients foretold would come With a path he barely understands He tread and he trudges on In the face of difficulties In the…

Christmas today.

It's Christmas morn. I am lying on the bed going through Facebook and the WhatsApp. I see many wishes for the Christmas. I try to recollect just one Christmas. Just one memorable celebration and my head is blank. I try to recollect the previous one and that one is blank too. There is no doubt…

Giving thanks

Sing praise to the LORD who dwells in Zion. Tell the nation what he has done. Psalm. 9:11 This memory verse in today's thanksgiving service helps me to do a throw back on my life and how far God has helped me thus far. # This year I did a lot of travelling Anambra, Enugu,…

My Love for One Day

Everyone had gone home. The service was over. I hid behind the trees, it will be weird if anyone saw my tears. My eyes should be puffy red by now. Even in my black jumpsuit and black rimmed glasses I knew I look pathetic. **** We grew up in the same neighbourhood. We went to…

On the wheels

So fast we move On the wheels Letting go our wills Letting go our traditions And so it is time to celebrate In an unconventional way It is time to throw out the trash And live for the first time For the first time in our lives. Seated behind the wheels With mischief in mind…

Unfriendly Friend

Friend become enemy Vague in the distance do I see him His turn back I see Never again to love. Never again to trust. Never again to bother with. This is us. This what we have become. And it is a surprise I do not miss you either.