Dada Olowo Eyo

Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019

Everyone wrote me off,
They said I wasn't tough,
Enough to make anything work,
They forgot I didn't need their luck.

Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019

STUCK.

The same hands that delivered penury,
Can never conceive prosperity,
Have you ever seen the graveyard,
Reject the offerings of the weeping sad?

The present crop of people steering the course of Nigeria will never get her to the shores of greatness and nationhood.

Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019

THE WEAKNESS OF POWER.

When confronted by a shift,
Even a slight ruffling,
The core explodes within,
Letting out an unsettling drift.

Chernobyl 1986 comes to mind as I contemplate what must have run through the minds of socialist power mongers that elected to keep a tight grip on their positions rather than help the people in the first few hours of that gargantuan explosion. EVIL.

Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019

NEIGH. MAAAAAA!

How easy for men,
To fall prey to the guiles of women,
Abandoning proper critical processes,
To simply thinking with their phalluses.

From boxing greats, to TV legends; football idols and Olympian gods, the malefolk have continued to give in to fleshy dictates that result in scandalous events that have 'shocked' the 'world of women'. But will men ever learn to use what's between their ears rather than what's darling between their thighs...hmmn?! SHAME.

Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019

ROTTEN.

They had the luxury,
Of avoiding the unnecessary evil,
But chose to abide with penury,
The height of everything but civil.

The woes of a country must be laid at the feet of her Arrowhead. FACT.

Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019

NOTE TO SEVENTEEN.

If you can see me now,
Will you be proud of how,
Things have turned out,
And give us a big shout?

By the time I woke up at thirty, and hadn't realised my dreams of thirteen years back, I could have continued to blame naivety but instead I looked up the road and took in my knapsack. STRONG.

Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019

LIGHT UP!

Lessons in defeat,
Get up on those feet,
It is a wake up call,
Get ready, again, to stand tall.