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Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
To end...or not to end it all,
What other route is there?
This is too much to bear,
Peace, maybe, beyond the wall.
Another Nigerian kicks the bucket in suicide. The increased rate of such deaths may not have been noticed by power hungry politicians only interested in advancing selfish pursuits. But the streets are replete with stories of undergraduates, husbands, teenagers, many people drinking poisonous liquids just to end it all at once.
For plethora of problems they've concluded that there aren't solutions for, they choose to ingest ******, a commonly available pesticide, as permanent solution to whatever plagued them for so long.
Nigerians are fast becoming endangered species. SAD.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
Spring, wilted rose,
Why she was taken,
Nobody knows,
Too much sorrow, to take in.
A young lady went missing in one of the suburbs of Lagos State, Nigeria. And for eleven days family and friends went by all out. Sadly, her remains were found in a filthy canal, after she was washed away in a flood when attempting to cross a street on a commercial motorcycle.
All hope came to nought as news of her untimely demise filtered in.
Another one on your hands, Nigeria! May her spirit never give all of you that have made motorcycle a major means of transportation in Nigeria and made our roads deathtraps.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
The food went the wrong way,
Like every other policy of theirs,
Children have been left in tears,
Denied the right to laugh and play.
When I look at my daughter, my hear breaks every time; wondering whether I had the right to bring her into this insane society. This country doesn't care about my child. The responsibility to nurture and give her everything necessary to make her succeed is borne by her mother and me. And they expect her to be a patriot in fifteen years time? JOKERS.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
After the ashes,
And all went quiet,
Reality opened new doors,
To emotions never buried.
When my Father died on the 22nd day of May 2016, and I received the distressing call from My Mother, she was wailing uncontrollably and in the midst of flowing tears mentioned that Daddy would never see my first child.

I put up a brave face until the day of the Wake when I broke down in tears and couldn't control my emotions as I gave a few words about his lifetime.

My daughter will be three by the year's and and I still leak a few tears whenever I remember seeing his outstretched body laying motionless in the casket.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
Wash away my longing,
But steam me first,
Dry me on the bedding,
Then quench my thirst.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
She floated on my consciousness,
She danced on my hair strands,
She veiled me with ***** darkness,
She taunted me with ghostly waist bands.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
And reality punched me in the face,
As my eyes lost their innocence,
Several shapes clothed in naked lace,
Beckoning unto men, and without  preference.
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