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256 · Feb 2013
Set...in motion.
Dada Olowo Eyo Feb 2013
Death holds me not in remembrance,
Sickness holds me not in remembrance,
I have become THE ADORED,
Not to be mocked, by the ENTIRE world.
256 · Oct 2020
DOGMA.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2020
Should fear be,
The cornerstone of,
Religious persuasion,
And global confusion?
254 · Jan 2015
THE SHINE AGAIN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2015
Umbrellas to hook,
The skies are crisp and blue,
Oh, what brilliant hue,
Out in the air, or laying by the brook.
254 · Apr 2014
THE FIND.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2014
The almond of her eyes,
And the sweetness of her thighs,
The spirit in her laughter,
All make her a rare wonder.
254 · Mar 2014
Shapes and Phases.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2014
The feelings for a girlfriend,
When she becomes a wife,
Should not end,
After she brings forth life.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2017
But whence hath humanity's milk of kindness,
The drowned hopes and expired ambitions?
Affluence eats up everything but portions of poverty,
Served daily to depressed, frustrated orphans of benevolence and sincerity.
253 · Oct 2015
CHEMICAL IMBALANCE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
When mother screamed at me,
Father broke into a wide grin,
By heavens, I am not sixteen!
My bald head should indeed make me free!
251 · Mar 2013
one...two
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2013
This one, puts a smile upon my face,
That, wears me out, much,
I am in this questioning phase,
Between them, who to take to church.
251 · Oct 2018
WHAT YOU GET.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2018
When you work really hard,
As though the next minute,
Is not a guaranteed linear measure,
And the past is a waste of time.
250 · Dec 2019
CROSSING OVER.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2019
Dearly beloved,
Yet, here we are, again,
Winding down another year's grind & hustle,
365 daily sweating the bustle;

Forgive me, whither I crossed you,
Mine spirit doth deeply begeth your forgiveness,
Aye, the new year can only get better,
Sharing renewed happiness and plenteous laughter;

Our losses, though they hurt,
Yet all glory to Yahweh all mighty,
Christ, Yeshua, continues to reign,
Constantly soothing our searing pain;

I love and cherish you,
Please find a reason to love me, too,
Never doubt the authenticity,
Toward you, of my heart's clarity;

And as another journey beckons,
Into the the daily unknowns,
Remember, Yeshua will intercede for his own,
As he sits, aright, Yaweh's heavenly throne.
A Yuletide message.
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This is my 1000th post & I'm quite humbled with how far I've come. Many thanks to all that have followed,  unfollowed & followed again. May the forces be with you all.
250 · May 2013
Day Five.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2013
Felt so much power,
Although I swung lower,
I could reach higher,
Although I still walked slower.
Still walking with the Lord
250 · Jun 2016
THE LEAP REAPER.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2016
On every fourth cycle,
It puts the sickle,
Out to harvest men,
In hundreds and thousands of ten.
It took my 80 year-old father on May 22, 2016. And I laid him to rest on June 10, 2016. Now, I am fatherless.
Many prominent people have also died this year, and many more will follow suit.
249 · Dec 2017
DING DONG.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2017
The complexes that afflict  my sensory synapses,
And the torments that assail my mental imbalances,
All contribute to the ambivalence of my thought processes,
And unwillingness of my backside to leave the warmth of my complacent recesses.
249 · Jul 2019
CRYPTO PHANTO.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
Filled with unnecessary pressure,
Brainwashed into losing all sense ability,
Stripped of all decent adornment,
Put under tremendous falsity;

And for what?
To fulfil what society expects,
In the league of fertile life givers,
Underlying a wicked, sinister, world.
Many Nigerian women fall victim of 'Cryptic Pregnancy' or 'Phantom Pregnancy' induced by charlatans that go about promising 'fuit of the womb' where there is absolutely none. The inject these women with all sorts of pregnancy mimicking hormones, the women get bloated, then after nine months they're to sleep only to hand them babies stolen or bought from other women. It's a terrible situation. UNFOLDING.
247 · Aug 2015
PILLOW PILL.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2015
Sleep is my only drug,
I get vitality, not from a mug,
Deprive me not of my snooze,
For I make no friend with the *****.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
At it's very teary end,
The game takes a grip,
Of those jostling for thrones,
The dead have their final say.
246 · Oct 2015
GLORY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
Come, spread out beautifully,
Lay gorgeously on the soft satin,
But give me forever to savour,
Such wonder between these mounds.
245 · May 2019
DEFINITIVE.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
Somewhere in the centre,
I drew the present and past together,
And no matter how many times the coin was thrown,
It landed on a future full of the terrible unknown.
245 · Oct 2018
THERE WAS A TIME.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2018
When the bird sang sweet tunes,
And the trees sweeter fruits,
Alas! tormentors now glory in their loots,
And The People of State lay die upon hot sand dunes.
Once upon a time Nigeria could care for her people; today, the people do not care what happens to her.
244 · Nov 2015
DIRTY DEEDS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
Give me a gun,
And I shall draw a hole in your mouth,
This ain't no pun,
Or a jolly trip to the south.
243 · Aug 2016
DEFIANT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2016
Fire is never hot enough,
Water can not drown me,
That mountain is but a spec,
And failure is not that tough.
241 · Dec 2017
HAPPY BONDAGE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2017
The beloved shackles,
Oh, those fettered minds,
Hands that never want to swing free,
And feet always contented with walking forward, backward.
241 · Jan 2015
RED CORNER.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2015
Tension, in my *****,
Caught a whiff of you,
****! What;s a man to do?
And here, no gold coins.
240 · Jul 2015
GOLDEN BRIGHT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2015
Why peek from behind the clouds,
When you can break the through the folds,
Turn fluffy fear into a story.
And blaze in all your glory,
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2014
Fear befriends me,
Wraps me in blind embrace,
In the stillness of space,
Harmony is all I see.
239 · Apr 2019
VISCOUS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
On av free fall,
Faster, faster, faaaaaaster!
Then you catch me,
Sloooooow meeeee doooooownnnnn, with your love.
238 · Apr 2014
THE BEST PART IS YOU.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2014
In your arms the earth stops,
Spinning in the opposite direction,
Away, I am all motion,
And all else flops.
238 · Oct 2015
REALITY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
Expect evil from everyone,
Accept all good that come thine way,
Truthfulness and sincerity; love and  justice, all are well worn,
For life is not all amorous fun, nor humorous play.
235 · Sep 2020
IGNEN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2020
But you always did ******* away,
Now you want to ride shotgun,
Your fairness is not in your colour,
This I see as you lay, beautifully, beside me.
235 · Oct 2015
WEDGED.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
Between clarity and the simple,
A place neither you nor I,
Will find, as a point, so high,
As that of a rising dimple.
235 · Nov 2015
THE SUN DIED.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
He refused to shine,
Then we looked to the east,
But found broken rays,
Alas, these are sorrowful days.
235 · Oct 2013
Found Love.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2013
If I didn't get it,
On a platter,
Then I would want it,
To last forever.
234 · Dec 2019
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.
233 · Oct 2018
AH. TEA. COOL.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2018
When I try to articulate,
Desperately trying not to gesticulate,
So I pause, step back, and calculate,
Thinking, if It were better, I recalibrate.
The 2019 general elections in Nigeria will end in a two-horse race between the incumbent and a former vice President: the former is perceived to be frugal, the latter extremely benevolent. Interesting.
233 · Dec 2014
THIS HOLIDAY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2014
Every cell bursting with joy,
These feet can not stop dancing,
Did not get one toy,
But will not stop singing.
233 · Jul 2024
PROTEST! PROSTEST!
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2024
For,  against; for, against; for, against,
The tension in the air is thick with anxiety,
A date with destiny, set in palpable angst,
Many people with reasons as diverse as society;

To some it is time to pay back the man,
The very same one that did the same,
A decade back when things were much better,
That same oogle-eyed, bespectacled quiet gangster;

To others a means to let off steam,
In the direction of everything, anything,
Not awake, not even in a trance,
Just flowing with tide of vociferous war chanting,

And yet some others just belong one team,
Having a singular motive to cause disruption,
Believing in no other way to realise the dream,
Of a a group of people united by a decent nation;

In response, the government of the day,
Seem to have dropped their breaches to ankle,
Stumbling along with weird interventions without delay,
Ambling this way, that way, like a lost and drunken uncle;

Every where there are armed, cutely kitted security forces,
Many of whom were previously missing where the action is loudest,
You wonder whether these ones live a different reality?
Perhaps in an alternate universe where costs are cheapest?

It is barely twenty-four hours to march off,
The government side-eyeing a list of demands,
Drawn by a determined cross-section of delinquents,
It is all, now, or nothing, forever!
Nigerian young people have mobiles across social media to protest the times that the have found themselves in, labelling it #ENDBADGOVERNANCE. The government on the other hand has chosen to play checkers on a chess board with them by pushing #SAYNOTOPROTEST.

Many have called out an inorganic counter advocacy by elements loyal to the occupiers of the rocky villa to discourage the August 1, 2024 protest from marching off. Some allege that as little as one thousand and five hundred naira is being exchanged for a couple of hours of pro-government marches.
On the other hand however, the protest group have remained resolute in the face of all sorts of gimmicks employed by various government agencies to find cracks in their ranks. Cheap or free bags of rice, emergency loans, immediate signing of new minimum wage, etc have not been met with favourable disposition by the hungry and angry.
233 · Nov 2015
THE SLOW.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
When I came to,
Awakening to lost love,
I felt my heart wrong,
And knew I will never be strong.
232 · Mar 2019
CRASH.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2019
Dreams shattered,
Aspirations asphyxiated,
Hopes extinguished,
Relationships destroyed;

That news everyone dreads,
Like a cold jolt from Hades,
It envelopes all in stiff darkness,
And pours grief plentiful measure.
A big plane fell and killed dozens of people, a good number comprising whole families. It is interesting to note that no great deal of effort has been out into engineering safer landing for planes in distress. Should everyone aboard a big bird perish just because...? SAD.
231 · Sep 2020
BORROW. (1.)
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2020
Some sense, maybe?
But to enslave generations?
Certainly should be in the options,
Old fool acting like a **** baby.
People borrow to explore the possibilities of turning their business ideas into empires of world renown. But here we are, after writing many generations into poverty, they come out to lamely defend the indefensible with poorly thought out stupidity.
230 · Oct 2015
FIRED DOWN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
After a cup of strong coffee and orijin,
My mind opened to everything,
I could feel love and brilliance,
All at the same instance.
'Orijin' is a Nigerian bitters with alcohol in it.
230 · Jan 2015
PLACE BEYOND OUR EYES.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2015
My heart wept,
When I saw where he was kept,
Unfit even for the dead,
But he proudly introduced his spread.
230 · Nov 2015
THE POWER.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
I make me what I want,
Insecure, shrivelled and broken,
Or happy and giddy,
A fun, go lucky daddy.
230 · Sep 2013
The love...
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2013
Rolling in the hay,
Bright, with warm laughter,
The picture of the us together,
It was magical, in every way.
230 · Feb 2020
AN ODE TO PRAYER.
Dada Olowo Eyo Feb 2020
Hear thou me, tonight, oh Lord,
From the innermost of my recesses,
Give I unto thee, many thanks,
For preserving my life;

For with shalt I have mentioned,
Thy ever loving goodness,
In the less warmly hole of the grave,
Being pleasant food for termite and maggot?

Thus I lift my heart into thee,
As I look ahead unto forty,
Your mercies are supreme,
And I say thou alone art magnificent.
Tonight would have been the last for me if the Lord hadn't guided my vehicle to a safe place as the front right wheel came off..after doing 100km/hr on the highway for over 100km on my way from work tonight. PRAISE!
230 · Sep 2015
THE END?
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2015
Still, unmoving, and cold,
The blue eats up the warm red,
Then alone, on the long narrow road,
Floating along, floating...leaving behind much unsaid.
What happens when we have breathed our last???
228 · Jun 2014
LONG FUSE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2014
Kick me, scratch, spit,
I welcome all,
With a smile so tall,
And I love, every one, and bit.
227 · Apr 2018
OMO AGEGE, THE SAGA.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2018
The many fiends rushed through screaming like a banshee,
Catching the sleepy lawmakers in a terrible fright,
The golden staff of office glittered in prostate silence,
Only to be stolen in rapturous, disharmonious free for all!
Yesterday, 'hoodlums' 'invaded' the 3-arms Zone of the seat of power, stole the Mace of the Senate of the Federal Government of Nigeria and went away with the instrument of authority...shameful acts
227 · Nov 2015
TERROR!
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
What goes through your mind,
When you blow up humankind?
What goes through your mind,
When you take all the peace that we can find?
227 · Jun 2016
NO AISLE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2016
Angrily, I said no,
Because she broke my heart,
Ten years ago,
And I did not want a restart.
227 · Sep 2014
THE REST OF US. (Part 1)
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2014
Who are we?
How did we?
When did we?
How then can we?
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