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157 · Nov 2019
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.
157 · Nov 2019
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!
156 · Mar 2018
FROM CHIBOK TO DAPCHI
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2018
Over two hundred girls many moons ago,
Then over one hundred in the same vein,
While the politics of stupidity serenades their incompetence,
Beer parlour intellectualism fingers the minds of the many keyboard warriors.
After Chiboks girls were captured about fours years ago, Dapchi girls followed suit...and Nigerians are clearly, clearly non the wiser.
156 · Dec 2018
THE HEART OF BLUE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2018
Oh, what disappointment!
To get to  my destination,
And you quit on me,
You have abandoned me;

Baffles me, truly, it does,
Out here in the cold,
Alone, with the elements for cover,
To have believed you, my lover;

Tears deeply into my recesses,
A place devoted for worship,
Sanctified only for you,
But now, what will I do?
156 · 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.
155 · 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.
155 · Nov 2017
THE INJUSTICE OF JUSTICE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2017
The silent screams of the grave,
Crying for justice,
From equinox to solstice,
Deafening howls that mere prayers cannot stave.
155 · 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.
154 · Jul 2019
JAR.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
Hello cookie,
Can I taste your honey?
Hmmmm...like heaven,
Please, can I die here?
153 · 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.
153 · Jun 2019
THE ODDS ARE EVEN.
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 Mar 2019
In the town of blind fools,
The one eyed idiot may rule,
In a country of perpetual nincompoops,
The lifeless buffoon will reign.
Enough said. 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.
152 · Feb 2019
BY NO FAULT OF OURS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Feb 2019
It thus happened upon us,
That fate be kind,
Crowning our heads,
With men of authority;

Many be angry with us,
That we ride in treated vehicles,
Chauffeured by armed guards,
And dining with golden spoons;

But they close their minds,
To the ways of the gods,
That bestow opulence,
Unto whom they so please.
In the defense of the wives of the elites of that country called Nigeria, their husbands are mere puppets.
151 · Oct 2017
DESOLATE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2017
This land flows with blood and tears,
And for a million years,
Vampires and gremlins,
Make love to werewolves and cretins.
151 · Nov 2019
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.
151 · 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.
151 · Jul 2019
I'LL JUMP.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
This bridge cannot stand between our love,
I'll take up wings from above,
Run as far as my heart can take me,
Because with you is where I'd rather be.
150 · Mar 2018
THE IMBALANCE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2018
Too many bright ones roam the streets in hungry frustration,
Locked out of opportunities to earn rich places in history,
This is the heartbreaking and mournful story,
Of rottenness and backwardness of a failing, contrived nation.
149 · Jun 2019
XXX. II.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019
On this lifelong journey,
We're a love in progress,
Thanks for this engaging process,
Of deeply and rewarding unfolding story.
My wife turns thirty-two today and she can pass for half that number. I'm unworthy of such a soul. Although she gets me all riled up many times, she's also that anchor that keeps me much grounded. Saves me from myself.
Many more years, Winkieboo.
149 · Apr 2018
WHEN IT GOES TO END.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2018
In the security of a bubble,
The might of the lowly breeze blows trouble,
Carrying with it ominous foretelling,
Of when things draw closely to a foreboding close.
149 · Mar 2019
SOW A SEED.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2019
The virulent untruth they implanted,
Brainwashed by virulent balderdash,
The greatest mendacity they sold,
Topped, only, by this blatant lie they preached;

After the caucasians had their field day,
Enjoyed their time balkanising the dark continent,
They left them a germ, a true trojan demon,
Couched in the halos of a heavenly mission.
The white man's religion has brought nothing but hardship to already impoverished Africans. Same with the Arabs. Both religions have totally devastated the entire region, creating unnecessary fault lines among Africans.
149 · 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.
148 · Apr 2019
TO JUSTICE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Seated on very high places,
The untouchable ones,
Unseen by the blindfolded bearer,
Of delayed unequal decisions.
148 · Apr 2019
TEMPORARY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Shifting undercurrent,
Mecurial disposition,
Flippant opposition,
Message to incumbent.
148 · Oct 2018
RATION. A. LICING.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2018
Concocted tribal maligning,
Romancing the victim's mentality,
Handed down hatred, bigotry,
Caught, now, in their own dystopia.
So the Igbos of Nigeria have never found anything worthy about the Yorubas and their eternal enemies the Hausa-Fulanis. But ins a recent twist, a certain Presidential candidate of the Fulani stock and  of a well-known party has chosen one of their own as running mate - and ALL IS SUDDENLY WELL?
148 · Jul 2020
WE, THE SAPIENS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2020
We think hate, rather,
Than love, toward,
The fellow human, who,
Should not think otherwise.
148 · Dec 2018
THE NEGLECTED ONES.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2018
But for no fault of theirs,
Left to circumstances around them,
Shaped by influences that took 'em in,
Ultimately cast into mold of ne'er-do-wells;

Backs turned on reason,
Facing a life of cold embraces,
No warm meals,
Bondless, mere statistic;

They have chosen the path,
To pay in misery's kind,
Dish out as much,
Leave them a taste of they got;

This is the language of their existence,
To engage in violent agitation,
Disobedience pays living stipend,
Opulent lifestyle funded by militancy.
Many of Nigeria's young never have never felt the presence of
a caring government in their lives. All they have ever known is lack
and impoverishment. The things that make life meaningful to them
were never affordable and nobody except their weather beaten parents seemed
care about them, that is if they did at all. Abandoned to fate, they latch unto
any means that will give them desirable ends
148 · May 2019
WEAK. END.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
Wash away my longing,
But steam me first,
Dry me on the bedding,
Then quench my thirst.
148 · Apr 2019
THE POINT?
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Why work ever so hard,
For what, really,
All year round vacation to the ends of the earth,
Or a fleet of never before driven, custom, rare wheels?
148 · Jun 2020
XXXIII.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2020
The alignment of the stars, today,
Shall be in your favour, all the way,
Creating a shining path, for you,
To live, blossom and remain blessed, all through.
We love you, Mommieeeeeee!
~From Daddy, Daughter & Son.

It's my wife's birthday today!
147 · Apr 2018
TWO OF ONE KIND.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2018
The story of the broom and the umbrella,
Has her children in fives and eights,
The difference is much the same,
A love encounter everybody hates.
The PDP and APC political parties of Nigeria Politics are infamous for delivering so much pain and hardship upon the citizens of that country.
147 · Jan 2019
NOT EVEN FUNNY ANYMORE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2019
No! Not by any measure!
All of that for their pleasure?!
People wake up, please?!
The State is not at ease;

Easy targets, very easy,
Abducted by pampered terrorists,
Dismembered by bloodthirsty ritualists,
Everyday people, under siege;

But they sit in lofty places,
Make a lot of faces,
Trod on the rights of others,
And give frivolous orders;

Simpletons turn on simpletons,
Coconut heads that know nothing,
Get in useless arguments,
Over senseless debasements;

Get serious, people!
Do not treat as fickle,
Encourage not their gluttony,
Worse, much, than capital felony.
The way those Nigerians have come out to support the same people that have stolen their cooin partrimony and plunged them into eternal impoverishment is heartbreaking to say the least. When will they realise they have been played for fools since 1914?
146 · Jun 2018
CRY, NOT FIGHT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2018
So she changed tactic,
Rather than engage in fisticuffs,
She allowed her mascara flow into it,
Taking all her emotions downhill;

And from there all defenses shrunk,
The room fell silent, you could hear an atom rub itself,
Done acting her part like a diva,
Everyone took turns blaming one another.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2018
So, what if Allah is the greatest,
And pray five times every day of our lives?
Jihad has its roots in Islam,
And Islam is a religion of peace, most definitely.
144 · Aug 2020
THE TURNAROUND.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2020
Knowing that people expect,
You to fail should but only,
Spur you to earn pleasing respect,
And shock then into eternal shame, truly.
144 · Jul 2020
NAIRA. (1.)
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2020
As worthless as it becomes,
Increasingly is hard to get,
The struggles of stable incomes,
Stacked against the failed goals set.
144 · Jun 2018
CURTAIN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2018
And what do you do when it all ends in defeat,
And there is no room for retreat,
And the heavens will offer no helping,
And everything comes down to nothing?
143 · Oct 2018
FEE. HERE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2018
Yellow, hugging dark recesses,
Sold to impoverishment and lack,
Praying daily for nemesis,
Never willing to take the knife by the jack.
Nigerians are generally cowed by fear of the unknown.
143 · Jul 2019
AGUR.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
The beast taketh were it hath not tilleth,
And by force establishes his colonies,
He set his eyes on southern territories,
And will drink and bathe in the bloods of dogs and baboons that he killeth.
It seems a calculated ploy to  recolonise southern parts of Nigeria with foreign elements takes on adaptive colorations as the agenda takes on several different identities. The latest is Rugs. SHAME.
143 · Apr 2019
BLANK FULL.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
When fed with the hypocrisy,
And stuffed with copious mendacity,
You can expect smelly idiocy,
From the place common sense never shine.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2018
On the road to see my sweetheart,
I stopped by a hedge of red roses,
And lingered for an eternity's moment,
To savour how true love should entrap a man's soul.
142 · Feb 2020
G.O.A.T.
Dada Olowo Eyo Feb 2020
Get,
Out,
And,
Try!
There's nothing overly exciting indoors, anyway.
142 · Apr 2019
EMPTY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Garri and groundnut issues,
Nonsensical palaver,
But what's the matter,
With eggheads pretending not to be coconut heads?
Garri is processed cassava paste, baked at high temperature to dry free flowing grains. It's a staple in Nigeria.
142 · Feb 2019
RED. RED. WHINE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Feb 2019
"Oh, does he still love me?"
"Can this be love?"
"Is he tired...of me?"
"But, but, why now?"

Cupid's arrow has come unstuck,
Aphrodite looked the other way,
Everything fades,
Including the magic;

So, when the day started cold,
No flowers, chocolate or cake,
Even cards bearing affection,
Then...maybe...possibly.
All the fuss about lovers' day and the many intrigues surrounding the day St. Valentine initiated the #RedMovement.
142 · Aug 2020
STIFF.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2020
When baby chews feet,
In all its flexibility,
Then I marvel at my inability,
To replicate this simple feat.
141 · Jul 2020
NAIRA. (2.)
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2020
Unfit women deliver,
Babies to be sold,
Into any fold,
Just for some paper.
141 · Jan 2020
BLACKENED.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2020
Whence art thine brownskin cast?
Down to the pits of ignominy and scorn,
Isn't thine form after the divine's?
And portions of glory adorning thine existence?

So, why play the fool,
To they that once were savage,
Whose history is replete with blood,
And orgied in the corpses of hunched maidens?
The black race has become the scorn of the earth. Yet when we research history, we find those that crossed the oceans with imports of foreign deceptions, had worse history of barbarism, cannibalism & fetishes only best imagined.

Whereas in the days before Christ, black people had universities where other races came for knowledge acquisition.

Wake up black people!
140 · Jul 2020
SATURDAY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2020
Rainy, beautiful day,
And everything can go wrong,
Like a well crafted song,
Belted awfully in very way.
140 · Jul 2019
POOL. PEAT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here,
To scare the hell into you,
Feed you with so much fear,
So, you never know what to do;

We're your gods,
And we don't play,
We have the rods,
So, open! Whenever we say!
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