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193 · May 2018
PUSSY.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2018
Kings have fought for it,
Paupers have died for it,
While many live for its heat,
Others will end up deadbeat.
The entire world revolves around this amazingly deadly weapon owned exclusively by daughters of Eve.
193 · Apr 2018
NIGERIA OF MY NIGHTMARES.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2018
Please, end this reality now,
For the torment of these ****** times are unbearable,
Please, restore the joyful times now,
For we yearn the times so memorable.
Nigeria is at war within; Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen run amok killing with reckless abandon and the government remains very, very aloof and unconcerned
192 · May 2018
THE MAGIC ROYALE.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2018
There is one one like my lover to me,
No matter what people say,
I have chosen her as my woman to be,
And stand by her everyday and in  every way.
191 · Sep 2019
MORROW, DAY, NIGHT. TO.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
Here we are,
And the next no more,
In through one door,
And then out in the cold.
190 · Jan 2018
HAPPY NEW CHEER?
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2018
And what's there to be happy about?
Executive stupidity on heartbreaking display?
Immoral Legislative senselessness on constant rotation?
Or Judicial frivolity transfusing decadence all year long?
190 · Dec 2018
ELECTION MONEY (VOTERMONI).
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2018
Under a petty ruse,
Cloaked in plain sight,
Not well hidden,
A sanctimonious deceiver;

Sanctioned by incumbency,
Clever use of state resources,
Bending the rules in favour,
Open abuse of executive latitude;

But do the people care?
Too impoverished to mind,
Would readily be had,
Even for a few grains benevolence.
The ruling party in Nigeria has cleverly devised a means of buying votes toward the 2019 elections by disbursing stipends to traders: market women and men; in the names of TraderMoni and MarketMoni. Softloans of ten thousand and hundred thousand naira respectively offered petty traders without collateral. This state backed daylight use of state funds ti bribe potential voters of that particular bloc comes weeks to elections in 2019. This is no different from outright exchanging money for votes, only cleverly wrapped in doling out pittances.
189 · Aug 2019
FORK IN THE TIDE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2019
Whence dost thine love sweep me,
Truly, I cannot see,
You make me feel this way, today,
Thence toss me that way, another day.
189 · May 2018
TAKE ME AWAY.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2018
The blue times are upon us,
Red is all we see,
But yellow is what we are,
Wrapped in black ensemble.
188 · Feb 2019
THE PRICE OF VICTORY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Feb 2019
At what cost, your Excellency?
What toll has your triumph taken?
Your glory at the expense of lives,
Dancing over a sea of blood.
Nigerians have decided, albeit unwittingly, to remain with the embarrassment of an incoherent geriatric. SHAME.
187 · Aug 2020
JUNGLEMENT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2020
Government, led by animals,
Government, of animals,
Government, for animals,
Government, sadly unfit for animals.
#REVOLUTIONNOW #TAKEITBACK

Nigerians attempt to wake up their sleeping consciences, this day August 5, 2020.
186 · Aug 2020
IMPOSSIBLE?
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2020
If goodly people were,
To turn to evil work,
Then nothing ought to stand,
In the way of evil lending to good.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2018
Many moons of dust and drought,
Banished by refreshing rushes,
Cool cataracts cascading, crashing,
Monsoon melodies waking winged *******.
186 · Oct 2018
SIR. THIEF. HEAT. GATE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2018
Integrity suffers embarrassingly,
And there is nowhere to hide,
Again, a play for sentiment,
But twice beaten cannot be shyness.
A requirement for  the highest office in Nigeria is to have attended high school ( or its equivalent). The present occupant of the seat is embroiled in issues bordering fraudulent claims of evidence of attendance locked in the vaults of the country's army - after pulling the wool over their faces in 2015, he once again adopts the same stratagem - but who is the commander of the said force, the people ask???
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.
185 · Jun 2019
THE AFFLICTED, MANY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019
Four years isn't eternity,
For the people of this besieged city,
Be brave, make your hearts strong,
It is true, the heavens cannot be wrong.
A lot of Nigerians are gruesomely massacred on a daily basis. The people in power seem to have lost any sense of responsibility and can only offer mendacious condolences.
184 · Aug 2019
ALWAYS. NOT FOREVER.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2019
I lied, every time,
I mentioned some words,
To you, a constant rhyme,
They're true, two edged swords.
184 · Mar 2018
NIGERIA SHRUGGED.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2018
Burdened by the gluttony of pudgy fingered politicians,
And their endless breaking of putrefying wind,
She heaved a huge and resounding sigh, very loudly,
And, with unbounding love, laid down the troublesome load.
184 · Dec 2018
THE 30K QUESTION.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2018
How utterly lacking in mind,
Truly missing the meat of the matter,
Bounced around by emperors of a stupid kind,
Failing to make the lives of subjects any better;

Bickering over nothing,
The critters in power chew up everything,
Turning bare buttocks to the people,
Dripping honey from foul mouths;

When will the people get a living wage?
Because you wage war against the living,
Paying just enough to go and die,
Senseless reprobates, enoying others' agonies;

But keep watch! O ye emperors!
For the day of reckoning cometh,
When your billions cannot save you,
From the same dish you served the oppressed.
The fragmented, factional and fictional disorganised labour of Nigeria have agreed to a minimum wage of N30,000 per month just above $80. In a country where lawmakers steal millions of dollars every month as emoluments and allowances. That country is really a joke and those running their affairs are clowns - and do not even get me talking about the docile, lethargic folks that call themselves the people of Nigeria. Sad.
183 · Apr 2019
FOUR ONE NINE. (2)
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
In the pursuit of nothing lost,
What then can be found?
But what indeed comes around,
Is a love story painfully gone bust!
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2018
Your time has come to its natural end,
Your course has steered itself silly,
Your tongue is disconnected from reality,
Your infamous time among the living will roll into oblivion.
Nigerians are up in arms over a comment by their President obliquely calling the 'uneducated' youth of Nigeria as indolent, rent-seeking and having an undue sense of entitlement...
182 · Jun 2019
OH, VAAAAAAAAR!
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019
Our hearts have been broken,
And many spirits shattered,
It handed them a token,
Yes, we will take this hard.
The Video Assistant Referee in football matches, especially at the ongoing FIFA Women's World Cup, France 2019; has continued to call for dramatic reactions to unfavorable or favorable overtimes decisions. With many African countries feeling hard done by as most unfavourable calls have gone against their teams, it calls into question, the readiness of African nations to play at the elite levels of the world's most followed sport.
182 · Aug 2020
THE SHADOWS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2020
The wilderness beckons,
As I journey to be tempted,
By the curves of endless delightes,
Yet, only your love, keeps me grounded.
182 · Jun 2019
BLUE HATRED.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019
Hot love melted my heart,
Like a knife you ran through,
But you were never true,
Dressed in white, yet wore a black hat.
182 · Apr 2019
HI! CARL. ROW. REE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
This part of the world,
And it's starchy ways,
Everything fattens,
Very heart unfriendly.
182 · Jul 2019
GENIUS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
A quick witted confrontation,
May present fast reactions,
But calculated, measured responses,
Far accomplish evident results the whole world sees.
181 · Jun 2019
BIAS. (2.)
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019
Heaven, it's raining gifts!
Tired after working all shifts,
Dog, will do it in lifts,
Never stalling between gearshifts.
181 · May 2020
NO MONEY.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2020
Yes nothing,
Yes high blood pressure,
Yes breakups,
Yes confidence out the window.
The absence of money is the presence of poverty.
181 · Aug 2020
DISCIPLINE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2020
To emerge victorious,
In the face of unrelenting adversity,
One need only constantly,
Continue to conquer self.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2019
Bread seeking stomachs,
Half conmen, half charlatans,
Gluttonous holes in round faces
They are the gods of men;

Monarchs in the temple of deception,
Riding on the backs of simpletons,
Rasing the dead from the living,
Tormenting treasuries out of empty purses;

Jerry curled hair and fancy suits,
Luxury boats and four wheeled drives,
Mansions in reserved areas,
Super jets customised for tireless pleasure;

They ***** false altars,
Imprison the weak,
And confound wisdom,
With diabolical manipulation;

Many generations fettered,
By spiritual delusions,
Will take many more,
To free the much incarcerated.
Many Nigerians worship men of god that coerce them into parting with meagre living. They have built empires on the backs of the hopeless many. When questions are raised, they shut it down by promising hell fire. But many thinkers are challenging these general overseers, 'daddies and mummies in the lord' that continue to pray on to the gullibility of people abandoned to their fate. SAD
180 · Jul 2018
THE BETWIXT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2018
I have grown love out of nothing,
Then watched it die painfully,
Love has been offered me truthfully,
But I never thought 'twas anything worth falling in.
180 · Jan 2018
WATER OFF THE ROCK.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2018
He just rolled out a poorly prepared script,
ingFailed attempt at ignite hope in anyone,
Streaming his **** and bull story in perpetual darkness,
Simply wasted megabytes of cheerless nonsense.
180 · Apr 2018
STATE OF THE STATE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2018
That geriatric living in the century before this one,
Finds pleasure in shooting off outside the shores,
Shameless old fleabag junkeetting without remorse,
Playing the script of unrepentant fools;

But herein lay the problem,
Because we are coloured by his senselessness,
Made to appear hapless, even hopeless,
At the beck and call of any and every imperial world power;

Give us back our dear mother,
Trapped in the misfortune of your unfortunate marriage,
We will rescue she who gave us ****,
From your ******, malevolent indifference.
I still do not understand why Nigerian leaders hurriedly lick the ***** of so-called western powers...???
179 · Mar 2019
BLACK.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2019
Craaaaaaaaash! And whaam!
Everything goes ham!
But after the cast comes off,
It's like riding the biggest surf.
178 · Feb 2019
IMPOSSIBLE, THE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Feb 2019
Moral uprightness,
In the face,
Of growing hunger,
And hopelessness?

Patriotism,
In the face,
Of joblessness,
And disillusionment?

While despots,
In the face,
Of impoverished people,
Sit on their common wealth?
It is well nigh impossible to feel anything close to love for that country Nigeria when the entity doesn't, didn't and will never care for a second. A system rigged to cater for those the colonial masters brainwashed into doing their bidding since 1914 and legalised a charade since 1960. A dysfunctional system that creates bad people can never be populated by good people.
178 · Apr 2019
POWERLESS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Sticky night, power out,
Always been that way,
But during moments of brightness,
Children cannot help but shout!
Nigeria children scream, "up NEPA!" whenever the lights come on after power cut - that can last hours, days, months or years. SHAME.
178 · Apr 2019
LIGHT!
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
She actually screamed, "yyyyytttt!"
Half drowsy, in sweaty birthday suit,
I'd been fanning her through the night,
In our terribly hot and breezeless suite.
It's almost 4am WAT and I'd been fanning my two-year-old daughter since 3am after the power went off. Then the standing fan came on and she dreamily, excitedly said, "yyyyytttt!" Every Nigerian child knows how to scream SOME-THING whenever power is restored. It's a big problem Nigerians grapple with, have been grappling with since forever. A country of close to two hundred million people can only generate four thousand megwatt of electricity - only when the grid hasn't collapsed, which is quite frequent. DARKNESS. SHAME.
178 · Apr 2019
THE. ILL. YOU. ME. NAUGHTY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Everywhere, hiding in plain view,
Gestures, mannerisms or whatnot,
Clandestine movements, shapeshifters, power women,
Cloaks and mufflers, gentlemen, even rappers.
178 · Oct 2018
BADLUCK.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2018
Nothing's right with this one,
Everything's wrong, begone!
That day I walked the wrong turn,
With you, I knew that I would burn!
177 · Dec 2018
THEY. THEM. WE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2018
But why have they turned out this way?
Wrapped in hypocrisy and utter mendaciousness,
Leading a life of ruin,
Encouraging self-destruction;

General perception does not help, at all,
Painted, everyone, with one lousy brush,
Deep seated dislike, spit on their nationality,
Unwelcome by many, persecuted by more;

Still they go around bearing arrogance,
Like the world owes them entitlement,
Sometime tangible, because they are,
Never bothered by what people think.
That country called Nigeria reminds me of America and Britain in the days of yore, lawlessness is the order of the day and crass looting of the treasury the mainstay of the ruling elite. SAD.
176 · Apr 2019
TOO. OOH! WARN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Foolishness galloping geometrically,
Uncommon sense nowhere near,
But the buffoonery of greed,
Towers all else astronomically.
Nigeria's population has crossed the 200 million mark in 2019! With 80 million children out of school, poorly educated or without of ever getting any kind of education...it is evident, even to the sightless, that only something more revolutionary than a miracle can forestall an impending doom. SAD.
176 · Apr 2019
PLACE OF NO RETURN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Are we there yet?
One foot from the brink?
Are our backs flush against the wall?
Can we break through or break out?
176 · May 2018
THE UNFORTUNATES.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2018
On either side of backward mountain,
Lay two valleys impeding any kind of success,
On this side the people of state are too hungry and angry,
The oppressors of state are gluttons, too satisfied to lift a finger on the other side.
The suppressed masses of Nigeria have to think on empty stomachs, too angry to be innovative and much frightened to even ask for their sovereignty back...
176 · Jun 2019
AND EVERY OTHER THING.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019
Out of this life,
From this existence,
An a amazing wife,
Husband without pretence?

What exactly are we looking for,
Those things we constantly pray about,
That we never fall poor,
Or comfort doesn't kick us out?

Stop to look at the heavens,
And whatever's beneath them,
The vastness of the oceans,
Gold, silver, and every other gem,

For whatsoever a man sows,
That he reaps and not another,
Therefore settle all your vows,
And be at peace with your brother.
The Kingdom of GOD is at hand. SELAH.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2018
Each day I awake to a heart full of affection,
But the sun sets on my bitter countenance,
Because you embrace me with thornful coldness,
And cut me deeply with your loud silence.
175 · Aug 2020
THE RUSH.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2020
Can't wait to be born,
Can't wait to crawl,
Can't wait to brawl,
Can't wait to return.
When young, we hurry to get older. When older, we miss the younger days.
175 · Jan 2018
AXE THE QUESTION.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2018
But who will bell this monstrous bush cat,
Gorged on the sweats of the lowly trodden,
Whiskers curled in the till of a million poorly afflicted,
And claws on the jugular of the southern dark lady?
175 · Apr 2019
ALL FOOLS' DAY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Clad in me best attire,
Of the finest spun wool,
Dressed in nothing to inspire,
Nothing but a golden fool.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2018
If only thine resolve woult split this hackneyed arrangement,
Of decades bound up in  insidious impoverishment,
Cornered to loud silences behind qwerty lines,
Only praying for the day of pleasant places along scentous pines.
174 · Aug 2018
THE RAPE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2018
Constantly prodding, digging without remorse,
Ripped of all diginifying attributes, and without recourse,
Taking, relentlessly pouring, your sickening abomination,
Laid bare, broken, in a state of defiled contamination.
Nigeria was ***** for the first time in 1957 when colonial masters united kingdom found oil in commercial quantity in Oloibiri in now Bayelsa state. the **** continues today abetted by neo-colonial masters.
173 · Jun 2020
WHITE SHEEP OF THE FAMILY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2020
There's nothing good found,
In the one different from the rest,
Ready to head west,
While others look north;

Of a different shade,
And not to be confined,
To the averageness of existing,
Without actually living, fully.
Colours are what they are.
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