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181 · Oct 2019
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.
180 · 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.
180 · 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.
179 · 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.
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.
177 · Jan 2018
ELECTRONIC BABY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2018
She picks up and smashes my old cell phone,
Ears ***** at every text and ringing tone,
Naturally drawn to ones and zeros,
And excited by every four-gee and byte stream combos.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2018
Many moons of dust and drought,
Banished by refreshing rushes,
Cool cataracts cascading, crashing,
Monsoon melodies waking winged *******.
176 · Nov 2024
SCARRED BY INNOCENCE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2024
The corruption of worldly living,
On this campus that we live in,
Falsehoods in large measures thriving,
A haven for demons to thrive in;

Where religion has failed,
For those who practise such,
The lack of it has helped much,
On angels wings to safety sailed;

The mystery can never be unravelled,
Though open for everyone to marvel,
Opaque even in the clearest marble,
Blind to the widest travelled;

The kingdom is for the childlike truly,
The little ones unspolled by immorality,
Unaware of the smallest bit of hypocrisy,
Certainly not for the decadent and unruly;

Where several lost precious lives,
A child's in ways most baffling lives,
Wherefore the soul that sins dies,
Away from nether gloom, alive the innocent lives.
DOE, JULY 2003.
176 · 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.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
Beaneath the rubble of King's landing,
Lay the ambitions of a queen,
Burned by the unburnt,
She flew in fiery rage.
175 · Mar 2019
A COLONY OF RABBITS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2019
A group of morons,
Weilding all sorts,
Chased the lot,
Men, women, old ones;

Threatened blood if they thumbed,
Even killed a few to make true,
Burned their timid decisions,
And dared any opposition;

Cowered into submission,
They handed over their sovereignty,
Resigned to generational servitude,
And an unending cyclical incompetence.
Nigerians, the ones able to think straight, although weak to make any kind of change, wonder when they will be saved from the claws of oppression and who will save them? TOUGH LUCK.
175 · 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.
173 · 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.
173 · 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.
172 · 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!
172 · 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.
171 · 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.
171 · 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.
171 · 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.
171 · Aug 2019
A FIST FULL OF EGGHEADS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2019
So many brilliant idiots,
In the hand of one fool,
They drive his oppressive chariots,
And become his hunger tool.
Nigeria is blessed with many professors but cursed with so much backwardness. SHAME.
171 · 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.
170 · 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.
170 · 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.
170 · 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.
169 · 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.
169 · 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.
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...
168 · 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.
168 · 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.
167 · 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!
167 · 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.
167 · 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.
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.
165 · 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.
165 · 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?
164 · 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...???
164 · Sep 2018
MIND. SET. ACTION!
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2018
The People of State with fettered willpower,
Can only exert authority on the lowly and weak,
Deriving power by force,
And wailing by right of entitlement.
This is Nigeria: where the poor oppress the poor and the mega rich do not give a rat's behind.
163 · 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 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.
162 · Apr 2020
A NEW STATE ORDER.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2020
There's no time than now,
That this country needs a rebirth,
All of the old must die,
To give life to a new beginning;

We just cannot continue like this,
Those dinosaurs have caused enough harm,
They've destroyed well enough,
Turned a bad situation irreversibly worse;

Thus a decaying of all the old ways,
An accelerated putting to death,
All religious bigoted acts of stupidity,
Tribal or ethnic jingoistic anomie;

A nation is coloured by its leader,
Unfortunate if such were defined,
By the idiosyncrasies of religious,
Or backward ethnosocial beliefs;

We are were we are,
Where we're not well,
Wherein we were,
Whereas were we where;

Thus it makes sense to gather,
The lot of these analogue invertebrates,
Offer them a life in exile somewhere,
Where the sun will never shine.
Nigeria must do away with the crop that defined it's sixty-year existence, for it is clear they cannot be part of the next sixty.

Let them that have any sense at all, reason.

Given the things we see during this global COVID19 pandemic local response, it is vivid, even to the visual impaired that the people unfortunate to be at the helm font have a clue.

The year twenty-twenty is a defining curve. Where we to miss redrawing our fate, then all has been lost.
162 · Apr 2019
TIWATOPELODOOLUWA.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Holding the bundle of joy,
Swaddled in my mother's wrapper,
Only one though came to mind,
Father of a daughter, me? Goodness!
I remember the first time that I held my daughter back in 2015. It was surreal, magical, dreamlike. I still look at her, today, tugging at my beards, pulling my ears and screaming, "Daaaaaaaaaddie, I want water!"  And think to myself that I actually do not deserve this honour.

*TIWATOPELODOOLUWA in Yoruba means, "We are thankful to God."
161 · Oct 2018
SIX BLIND WOMEN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2018
Beggars they are, huddled by the guardrail,
As headlamps make out their shriveled forms,
They have never known love, less brail,
Their fate is one of many norms;

Day and night they are led by children,
Life's gifts wallowing in misery and abandonment,
Left to uncertain fate, will never know a pen,
These ones daily embrace scorn and raging disappointment;

So the six blind women,
All from the north,
Summarise our homegrown problem,
Everything we are, everything we are not.
The problem of beggars from the north of Nigeria swarming every capital city of that country has lingered like an unrelenting cancer refusing every known cure and their government really do not care about them or pretend they do not exist. Shame.
161 · 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...
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2018
So, wha' if I got dark pigments,
And my melanin be poppin'?
Hey, 'taint yo' business if my ancestors swung from branches,
Remember, they got bruised and violated, tending yo' **** ranches.
159 · 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?
159 · 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.
159 · 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.
159 · Apr 2019
ABOMINATION.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Chasing tattoos, dreadlocks and bling,
These ones don't know a thing!
They take life at the pull!
Of a trigger meant to protect all!

Dregs of the force, idiotic,
Drunken, high on narcotic,
Dressing inordinately, oozing,
Dreadfully unamusing,

They create a ****** mess,
Harbingers of sadness,
Candidates of the hottest parts of hell,
Deserving, one and all, the same horror they constantly sell.
Enough to make any sane mind livid! They have killed another innocent young Nigerian, again! The Nigerian Police Force is a terrible security agency that has demonic officers up and down its rank and file. Infamous units created to fight armed robbers have become roving task masters shaking down anyone that looks good or dressed fly. Arbitrary killing, torturing or maiming hapless people is their stock in trade and nobody from the president of that country to governors of states across the federation have said or done anything tangible to put a permanent reign on the bloodsuckers. The unsettling peace of the graveyard may just indicate a ****** revolution around the corner. INEVITABLE.
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
158 · May 2019
THE DAY LOVE ASKED.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
On this dark road,
Would you ride with me?
Even if fears raised questions,
Would your confidence shut them up?
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