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Dec 2019 · 234
GONE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2019
The cheerful, bubbly man?
The one that catches attention?
Yes, the angels took him away,
And we're too shook, to ask, why?
Mr. Mattias Hamo was a man of immense stature, of tremendous timbre and calibre. The last time I saw him was in 2017 when he gave me a lift and some pocket change. He was a frugal man.

His wife was was a senior colleague and elder to me.

He will be greatly missed.
Dec 2019 · 84
ME.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2019
ME.
I have offended many,
That did not deserve any apology,
And attracted a few,
With loveless methodology.
Dec 2019 · 93
BENEFIT OF TRUST.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2019
I'd rather not doubt,
Your good intentions,
Even ignore my perceptions,
Of what you're truly about.
Dec 2019 · 222
WOMAN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2019
Rebellion is a her middle name,
She demands special rights in the game,
If you disregard her serpentine frame,
The all you get is a walk of shame.
Dec 2019 · 74
MOTHER, BELOVED.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2019
For this could be the last,
Time, I hold you, mother,
So, let none put asunder,
This love, in blood cast.
My mother suffered a mild stroke six months after my father died in 2016, they were married forty-six years. She'll be seventy years old in year twenty-twenty.

She is with me presently to help with her newborn grandson as is the Yoruba tradition.

It's always a dicey situation with her around because of her strong beliefs and strictness. None of which my wife will have.
Nov 2019 · 151
GREENSTONE PARK.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
Our voices will be heard,
Your handmade fences can't stop us,
You may come with your galactic force,
But our will cut through your thick head.
Nov 2019 · 114
DO, QUICK.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
Tarry, oh young love,
For thine heart, I see pure,
But make haste, for time abideth not,
The grave is a cold, lonely place.
Nov 2019 · 157
THROAT. JAM. WUH?!
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
Can't take it all in!
Too enormous to handle,
If you must ram your bundle,
Then slide the **** thing!
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
The velvety breeze of the desert,
Caressed my bronze skin,
It's golden shimmer called out alluringly,
The silky smoothness ran through my fingers,
And danced seductively under my aching feet.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
Roads paved with sweat and dedication,
Making for free and unhindered motion,
This deliberate act of civilisation,
Is one vision shared by the entire nation.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
Everything in its place,
In this peaceful space,
Being here by special grace,
Something no devil can ever replace.
Nov 2019 · 80
THE VIEW FROM THIS SIDE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
All around and about me,
The rat race for breakfast or dinner,
For as far as the eyes can see,
Our chances for robust peace grows thinner.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
After forty years local,
A man journeys abroad,
For one week total,
And his horizon becomes a shapely broad.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
This lonely bush,
Sticking around the corner,
It's love life needs no push,
For no one will call it brother.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
Block to block, to block,
The greens have no luck,
You can get limestone for a buck,
Or ****** grey outcroppings that actually ****!
Nov 2019 · 124
THE VENTURE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
Tarry, oh young love,
For thine heart, I see pure,
But make haste, for time abideth not,
The grave is a cold, lonely place.
Nov 2019 · 157
THIS LITTLE SAM' OF MINE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
I'm gonna remain like this,
Rooted in this magic space,
Life has happened, once more,
A total gift wrapped in sweetness.
Welcome, son.
Nov 2019 · 88
THE ARRIVAL.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
With one great push,
And with all our great mothers,
Opening the heavens with gentle assurances,
Out came our bundle, resplendent in every way.
My wife gave birth to our second born, 12/11/2019 1445hrs, a boy. His older sister, almost three years old, was besides herself with outrageous excitement.
To all the wives or mothers out there doing unimaginable things, beyond otherworldly things no man can do - respect!
Nov 2019 · 286
BIRTHING.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
Glorious moments of pure pain,
But with everything to gain,
The night may endure long,
But the morning comes with brilliant song!
My wife is in labour. It has begun...
Nov 2019 · 115
LABOUR.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
Counting down contractions,
The little one moments away,
Barring all unnecessary preconditions,
This new bundle will bless us today.
Everything points to labour as contractions become more frequent and less spaced. Awaiting delivery...
Nov 2019 · 189
EMERGING.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
There were days I crawled on my dozens,
And set my mandibles to the dirt,
Rejoice, o creatures, at my rebirth!
For today I take up wings to soar among the heavens.
Nov 2019 · 157
BUSYBODY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
Those that scrutinise can't do,
Wishing it was theirs,
Even when I poo,
They point out their worst fears.
Nov 2019 · 339
EXPECTING.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
Extending over many weeks,
The little one continues his tricks,
Kicking, turning and punching,
Almost ready to be the newest bundling.
My wife delivers our second this month. The feeling is unreal.
Nov 2019 · 107
LOVE AS A SERVICE. (LAAS)
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
Selfishness rules by day,
And greed by night,
Things we are denied by right,
Slide into pockets that can pay.
Nov 2019 · 109
THE ALTERNATIVE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
If only you knew,
Old romance is sweeter,
Than what modernity blew,
In, to leave many worn and bitter.
Nov 2019 · 74
THE FALSEHOOD.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
Our biases have brought us nothing,
But everything we shouldn't be,
Restricted by the things that ought not,
Trapped in the hypocrisy we call reality.
Oct 2019 · 186
ABROAD.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2019
Here we are,
Living within our horizon,
Oblivious of the beyond things,
Images startling to the senses;

And opportunity meets resources,
Things fall into place,
Aboard the wings an eagle,
Off to see the things beyond.
Sep 2019 · 92
PRODIGAL.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
Wallowing in the ruins of failure,
Fate has left me no joy,
Deserted by all goodwill,
I am here, alone and destitute.
Sep 2019 · 111
SACK.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
They cast the die,
It was no lie,
Left me on the lowest high,
Plucked from the damnedest sky.
Sep 2019 · 97
STRUGGLE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
The sun, it rises upon my defeat,
And sets deliberately upon my immense sorrow,
Daily I wallow in miserable agony,
Drown I, a thousand times, in cheerless wantonness.
Sep 2019 · 123
STUCK.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
Tattered dreams inflicted my senses,
They robbed me of sweet sleep,
I lay awake, midnight, trembling,
Fearful of the shameful morning.
Sep 2019 · 104
RISE DOWN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
In love with their oppressors,
Their poverty sponsors,
Unwilling to break their fetters,
Duped by serial fake love letters.
The Nigeria people are too afraid to demand for better existence from their government. Choosing, always, to take the easy road of 'siddon look' in matters that require spontaneous revolution. SHAME.
Sep 2019 · 130
WHAT. HER?
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
This  supernaturally occurring piece,
Of magically designed wonder on two feet,
Brings to me everything, and peace,
So, to drown in this love, is a welcome feat.
Sep 2019 · 101
GOLDEN PLATINUM.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
My disappointments held me,
Captive, for many teary moons,
You see, I wasn't born with any metallic spoons,
None, whatsoever, so I became the best that I could ever be.
Sep 2019 · 107
CANVASS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
The picture I painted,
Of you, in my head,
And what I see before me,
Can only be best imagined.
Sep 2019 · 376
TENSION.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
You walked on my love,
And left your magic print,
But nothing has been right,
Since I was broken into pieces.
Sep 2019 · 106
THE GUILT OF INNOCENCE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
A pure mind suffers no conscience,
The goodness of a man's heart,
Oft brings him in proximity,
With men of darkened contrition.
Sep 2019 · 101
FLAT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
A man's deflated ego,
Is a punctured tyre,
That can't take him anywhere,
His confidence wouldn't go.
Sep 2019 · 73
THISTLE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
Call her by her words,
Thorns that pricked my confidence,
Every collection of letters uttered,
Scraped anything that made me somebody.
Sep 2019 · 76
TOMORROW, YESTERDAY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
Shall we then leave behind,
The sins that brought us here,
For innocent hands to inherit,
And further a blood existence?
Sep 2019 · 185
LEGEND OF MINE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
From the dark, murky confines,
Of the airless, viscous sanctuary,
Wherein greatness is engineered,
Comes this one the world eagerly  anticipated.
Sep 2019 · 106
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
The heart of a woman,
Is a yearning seed,
Seeking fertile ground,
Any other is a lifetime of regrets.
Sep 2019 · 343
THE END.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
Knowing everyone cannot be pleased,
Then why try, anyway?
There is peaceful closure,
In realising this simple, yet powerful, conclusion.
Sep 2019 · 135
THE LOSE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
No one will ever know,
How deeply the pain went,
It is a festering sore,
Never healing, ever open.
Sep 2019 · 100
THE CONUNDRUM.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
Love found me broken,
And left me a token,
Then my heart got stolen,
Because my ego was swollen.
Sep 2019 · 117
UNDAUNTED.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
It wouldn't get to me,
Whatever they said or did,
All were in a bid,
To break my smile.
Sep 2019 · 86
CAST DOWN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
You took something from me,
And wish to be left with yours?
How degenerate can you be?
****** low life, cursed on all fours.
Sep 2019 · 102
IN THE WAY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
Of my happiness,
Absolutely nothing,
Utter senselessness,
To even think you're something.
Sep 2019 · 187
OTHER SIDE OF HURT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
Please, don't pity me,
Yours is more precarious,
Yes, love dealt me a huge blow,
But removed the magic in your awesome glow.
Sep 2019 · 98
NO FLIES.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
I'll pay you back,
Trust me, I'm beyond your attack,
For every help you got for free,
I'll double it, and then times three.
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