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129 · Apr 2018
EMOTIONAL FIREARMS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2018
Shoot me with  affection,
Drown me with devotion,
Strangle me with desperation,
Poison me with dark, dark perspiration.
128 · May 2019
FRONTING.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
Between fiery and fun,
Eyes that make heads turn,
She pretends she hates my guts,
Yet  I colour the shape of her thoughts.
128 · Dec 2018
BEDROOM LECTURERS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2018
Hunters of vulnerable daughters of Eve,
Preying on weakened virtues,
Randy pedagogues  in the temple of callousness,
Eating forbidden fruits, whether ripe or unripe;

But this shameful act,
Has come at a great cost,
One scape man is now in fetters,
Ruminating over matters of his itchy crotch.
After many hushed up incidences of ***-for-marks, one professor at a foremost Nigeria ivy league school is not in jail. He was unfortunate to have been implicated by a young lady that had the foresight to record conversations between the both of them. In a trial, not in small measure aided by overwhelming media outcry, the judge sentenced the "deacon" to jail for two years for demanding *** from his student. CHANGE HAS COME.
127 · Oct 2018
DIG. KNEE. TEA.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2018
Back breaking labour,
Rheumatic pay at the most,
Then cold morsels to break evening fast,
Life of the People of State.
One percent of Nigeria lords it over the other 99. But when will the latter reclaim their prosperity?
127 · Aug 2020
THE BUSINESS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2020
Lend your power,
Only, to those things,
That expressly matter,
To you, and to other beings.
127 · Apr 2019
EVAPORATE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Moonshine night, seated,
The two of us, whispering sweet nothings,
Wondering what the future held,
Morning! Wake up! Dream!
127 · Feb 2019
SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Feb 2019
In the mind of the average,
That corner set much farther,
The deepest recesses,
Set way from the sun;

Patterns of thought,
Configured as fragments,
Not one aligning,
But freely standing;

Malformed decisions,
Incomplete opinions,
Inarticulate perceptions,
Discordant associations;

The children of State,
Rudderless, mindless,
Blown about and around,
Unprepared, unfortunate.
The people of that country called Nigeria are actually not ready to birth a new paradigm, a newer way of governance. But they continue to groan under heavy burdens of penury and sadness; with no hope of anything changing soon. SAD.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
After the ashes,
And all went quiet,
Reality opened new doors,
To emotions never buried.
When my Father died on the 22nd day of May 2016, and I received the distressing call from My Mother, she was wailing uncontrollably and in the midst of flowing tears mentioned that Daddy would never see my first child.

I put up a brave face until the day of the Wake when I broke down in tears and couldn't control my emotions as I gave a few words about his lifetime.

My daughter will be three by the year's and and I still leak a few tears whenever I remember seeing his outstretched body laying motionless in the casket.
126 · May 2020
PEOPLE CHANGE.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2020
Could be as a result of circumstance,
One situation could lead to happenstance,
Or a conflicted dissonance,
Even a bewildering lack of stance.
Things happen.
126 · Aug 2019
IN. DUST. TRIAL. SCALE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2019
So, how big is your fear?
Large enough to scare you to death?
But all will eventually be crystal clear,
When the jury carried out its final threat.
126 · May 2019
SIZZLING SPURS! 'AXED OUT!
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
Seemed the spirit was lacking,
But one man kept on attacking,
Then youthful inexperience came knocking,
And it was Hots' for the taking!
In another epic turn of events, Tottenham Hotspurs came from lone goal deficit, then a   two goals deficit, to score three amazing goals against a youthful Ajax side - all three goals by one man - to reach the 2018/2019 UEFA Champions League final; making it an all English affair in Spain next month after Liverpool stunned Barcelona last night! INCREDIBLE DOUBLE COMEBACKS!
125 · Aug 2019
ROOTS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2019
I am son of this soil,
Planted in its richness,
No **** can choke my identity,
The minerals fuel my everlasting.
125 · Jun 2020
USE LESS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2020
Such crass hypocrisy,
Coming from high society,
Blaming nomenclature,
For their inane nature;

Calling a pig,
A bad dig,
Just to roast it,
And save your own meat;

The movement has responded,
Just as the street would have wanted,
A total boycott of your brand,
To garnish your garri with enough sand.
A flight owner in Nigeria recently wrote a letter of apology when queried for flying a popstar and reality show star to the country's capital for a drive-in concert that saw people violate the presidential taskforce on COVID-19 directives against crowding.

In their own wisdom, the business owner labelled the passengers that used his heat USELESS PEOPLE and that got the MARLIANS riled up, calling for a total boycott of their airline services.

The hypocrisy in that country called Nigeria is second to none anywhere in the world.
125 · Jul 2019
EAT UP.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
****! Pick your plate clean!,
Many hungry mouths in Sudan,
A messy plate isn't a status symbol,
Remember the empty stomachs in Venezuela.
125 · Mar 2018
THE RISK.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2018
Uncalculated, dipping a pinky into a pool,
Calculated, jumping off a skyscraper,
Like a game of high stakes poker,
You deal...or are dealt with.
124 · Jul 2019
SOAPY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
Rhythmic back and forth,
Entire shaft getting frothy,
Eyes roll back, mouthing gibberish,
Releasing gleefully with climatic relish.
123 · May 2020
LAST RESORT.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2020
Hypocritical nature of man,
Allows him move closest,
To his God,
When a hair's breadth from death.
123 · Jun 2019
NEIGH. MAAAAAA!
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019
How easy for men,
To fall prey to the guiles of women,
Abandoning proper critical processes,
To simply thinking with their phalluses.
From boxing greats, to TV legends; football idols and Olympian gods, the malefolk have continued to give in to fleshy dictates that result in scandalous events that have 'shocked' the 'world of women'. But will men ever learn to use what's between their ears rather than what's darling between their thighs...hmmn?! SHAME.
123 · Sep 2019
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.
123 · Aug 2019
SONS OF THE GUN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2019
Worldly riches are useless in heaven,
Without yeast bread is unleavened,
Children of Mammon are ungoverned,
Caught between the sixth and seven.
123 · Apr 2020
A FRIEND.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2020
An enemy,
Undiscovered,
A shadow in the wings,
Waiting to know you.
Many times we perceive reality wrongly.
123 · Dec 2018
LITTLE DOCTOR, BIG TROUBLE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2018
So it went viral!
Celebrity arrested for illegal possession,
Gun toting and threatening officers of the law,
Also, riding an unregistered conveyance;

Amusing, to say the least,
When news tumbled in,
That a popular face was arrested,
Then paraded like a common criminal;

Social media went into a frenzy,
As videos made the rounds,
Made to lie on the ground,
He and his companions;

But a magistrate has set him free,
Reprimanded and asked to sin no more,
Cleared of illegal possession,
Because he had a license, anyway;

Then we remember, from sometime back,
That this same celebrity is an ambassador,
A popular face for the law,
Wow! Even posed in that uniform!
In Nigeria it is not uncommon for the Police to rough people up, small people, folks who are small enough to get caught in their notorious web of vindictiveness. If you are not BIG enough or don't know BIG people then you likely to be in for unpleasant experiences; especially if you are not in the good books of the vagabond in power.

So Small Doctor, a popular hip hop artist got roughed up by the police and paraded like a common criminal, but unknown to those that made him lie on the road, harassed and effectively disgraced, he is a police ambassador. they claim he used a rifle to threaten a police warden on duty.

These people leave the mighty criminals that have wrecked that country to pieces, plundered and impoverished 190 million people to go chasing adrenaline junkies. SAD.
123 · Apr 2020
SANCTUARY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2020
War! War!! War!!!
All around me sin a-blazing,
I run in every direction unseeing,
Looking for that door;

High on a moral ground,
Celebated from corruption,
Hermitted from seduction,
Sprituality all over me wound;

Then came the guns,
Bullets of lustful persuasion,
Sporadic shots of infatuation,
Leads of immorality weighing several tons;

Help me! Please, help me!
My soul cries out for a place,
Where I can see God's face,
Away from this drowning sea.
123 · May 2018
MY GIRL.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2018
Wait, when was she hardly a pillow's length?
As she lay asleep, curled up, now several feet longer,
Then I reflected on the miracles of this life,
And how awesome such moments can truly be.
My daughter is 17 months old and on this children's day, it's just amazing how big she has become...
122 · Feb 2019
JUNGLE INJUSTICE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Feb 2019
Sun has set on charred remains,
Of an unfortunate fellow,
Happened upon the wrong place,
At the most importune time,

The birds tell one tale,
And the rats another,
But the mob wanted blood,
And ended another life needlessly.
Reminiscent of the lynchings of the 1800's and 1900's in America, and many other inhumane acts of recklessness in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Nigerian have taken theirs in a another dimension that defies logic. This week, another person has been burnt to death on the assumption of being a robber. The young man was at a bus stop when a mob jumped him, called him "thief!" bludgeoned him,  threw car tyres around him doused him with petrol, and burned him to ashes.

Cases of such barbarism are not alien, many times premised on the incompetence of  law enforcement agencies, people would rather effect their own kind of justice rather than wait out civil jurisprudence. SAD.
122 · May 2020
DISLOYALTY.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2020
How can I trust,
My own beating heart,
Betrayed from the very start,
Even before the very first ******.
In the affairs of man and woman, the heart is largely no to be taken too seriously.
122 · Apr 2019
THE HUMAN GOD.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
It is that little thing inside all of us,
That makes us want to deliver the biggest impact,
Whether taking a life or granting wishes,
That power to make that life changing decision.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2018
And when the two forces locked hands,
Doomsday clocks rolled back many seconds,
On neutral ground both looked not out of place,
As many wondered what it meant, this phase;

The earth went on along its own axis,
The sun greeting the morning from the east,
Surely the stars will twinkle  tonight,
And the moon offering its cold bright light.
As Messrs Kim and Trump shook hands in Singapore today, everything building up to the moment ended in a huge anticlimax of ... what the heck did we think was going to happen? The end of time???!!!
122 · Feb 2019
THE COST OF THRONES.
Dada Olowo Eyo Feb 2019
Thrown into wailing and sorrow,
Day suddenly turns dark,
Many a heart broken,
And many more shattered;

Father against his daughter,
Mother despises her son,
Uncle fights his nephew,
Aunt derides her niece;

Neighbourhoods at war,
Communities at daggers drawn,
Hamlets in peril,
Towns go up in flames;

The light has burned out,
The future is quenched,
Many felled by bullets,
Others hacked to pieces;

The make the headlines,
Blood spilled unnecessarily,
They leave loved ones behind,
And a country unwilling to change.
Yet again many have died during the 2019 presidential election in  Nigeria. The cost of previous bloodshed have never been atoned for, now this. Women hacked into pieces, young folks hit by stray bullets, ballot box snatchers mobbed to death. The principal actors pretend everything is okay until karma happens, and it will. SHAME.
122 · Jul 2019
BUBBLE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
Chew, chew, chew, bloooooooooow,
Filled with nothing, but air,
You should know, life's not fair,
There are pins that make things go pow!
121 · Jul 2019
TAKE ONE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
For the glory of the team,
Stuck me leg at full steam,
That got me sent the heck off!
But mon dieu! that's some ****** stuff!
121 · Jul 2019
SMOKE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
Fire burning cold,
Spirit turning on its own,
Can't see beyond what I'm told,
Oh, what calamity to be thrown.
121 · Apr 2020
WHY ALWAYS LATE?
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2020
To the party,
To development,
To common sense,
To everything else;

Coronavirus COVID-19,
Has stripped them,
Down to their inefficiencies,
Revealed! All lack basic competencies;

The people of state bear the brunt,
Of coconut heads acting like eggheads,
Led by an ancient of days,
Too old for many modern ways.
The young people of nigeria groan under the heavy burden of analogue leaders stuck in leadership styles that lead nowhere.

It is sad that while many other countries in the same age range as Nigeria have gone on to become self-sufficient in many industrial, technological and educational aspects of their existence, Nigeria has gone on to breed over ten million children out of school and eight times that underemployed or unemployed.

COVID-19 sheds new light on what the future can be like - the kind that takes full advantage of technology and industry.

Question is that will Nigerians still throw their future away by the next election cycle or make a radical one-eighty-degree turn away from greed and stupidity?
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2019
They greeted the millennium with renewed hope,
Welcomed the new era with more expectation,
Military jackboots had been put to the rope,
Civilian turncoats can now tend the plantation ;

So every four years they mount the soapbox,
Preaching prosperity in the clouds,
Telling the People to give away their sovereignty,
Over cheap promises of beds of roses.
Nigerians are in, again, for four years of unbearable hardship under false leadership and perfidious governance.
121 · Feb 2020
A HOME.
Dada Olowo Eyo Feb 2020
A welcoming warmth during cold,
A place where love w'll hold,
A cool bide in the day's heat,
A beautiful place for refreshing retreat.
We all need this.
121 · Nov 2019
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.
120 · Dec 2018
XAT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2018
The problem created by problem makers,
Who call themselves, ridiculously, government,
Is push absurdity down the throat of the people,
And expect anything better than stupidity;

These people create burdens,
Designed only for the vulnerable,
Fetter the impoverished with difficulties,
And pass the blame to others than them;

Laughable, the least,
Ignominious, the most,
Ridiculous, in between,
Mendacious, all around;

Other nations do it,
So, why can't we?
But are you a country?
Please, inform my ignorance;

So, when they place the sleigh before the dogs,
And expect movement is any positive direction,
It only shows the extent of their disillusionment,
The sincerity of the toilet, really.
The present government of the Nigeria state wants to increase tax on the already impoverished folks of that country. It is ironic that this government is not concerned about reduces taxes for smaller businesses that actually pusah the wheels of the economy. It will (not) be surprising that the gullibles will still vote this  particular malevolent people back into power. It is only sad that the cycle of impoverishment will only linger on for as long as the people of state finally wake up into consciousness. SAD.
120 · Jul 2018
THE FUCKERY TALES.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2018
Pray that the sun rises in the east,
And pray, too, that the earth spins along its axis,
Make supplications that the moon shines at night,
And intercede on behalf of many rats in the sewers;

Here we are, people of state,
Vagabonds in high places have come again,
Pulling the chord of our collective mentality,
Yanking the chain of our divisive idiosyncrasies;

For many, many seasons they have harvested,
Fruits borne by the motherland,
Furnished their illicit barns with treasures of state,
Fueled their desires with the blood of the children;

Yet a time comes when the seas will roar in tempestuous rage,
The four winds cry out in deafening anger,
Night and day both refuse to do their bidding,
The earth refuse to stomach the wickedness of  their inhumane abominations;

Not too long, oh brethren,
The time is dearly nigh,
That the shackles of our backwardness,
Will turn into tools for our deserved happiness.
Nigerians have bee taken for fools for far too long and the time is here to break free form our tormentors
120 · Jul 2020
WET.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2020
Lazy Thursday afternoon,
Room for cuddle and spoon,
Everywhere darkly cold,
Now, into the very warm fold.
120 · May 2018
COLLECTION.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2018
Toothbrushes, ***** old socks,
This business truly *****,
Thought I had the best times with you,
But all I did was play the **** fool.
119 · Mar 2019
CONTAIN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2019
Excitement at a level,
Pulsing, pulsing...pulsing,
Unable to hold it in,
Bursting, bursting...bursting.
A little bit more...and another cycle is closed.
119 · Jul 2019
ROWS. EASE. ARRRRRGH! READ.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
If only men went for,
What's between the ears,
And not,
What's between the thighs;

Perhaps the world,
Would be less complicated,
But again, what's life,
If not what kills a man.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2018
So, what if we talk funny,
And believe in the entitlement of our own ignorance?
We will build a wall to keep you out,
And brag about how we run this friggin world!
119 · Apr 2019
FOUR. ONE. NINE. (1)
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
To many, and a few,
This is not new,
Old as anyone can remember,
Cycling from January through December;

Obtaining by false pretence,
Others later coined a preference,
Yahoo! Yahoo!
Yahoo! Plus! with added voodoo;

And from Cairo to Capetown,
Or Freeport through Freetown,
Victims have been left devastated,
Even the smartest outwitted;

Advance fee fraud,
I've got gold in the cloud,
You should be investing?
So, where should I be paying?
Nigeria has gained notoriety for being the host of a number of online and offline scams. Locally referred to as 419 or Yahoo Yahoo, this sometimes elaborate schemes involve as huge as entire life savings to as ridiculous as stuffing blank paper in place of real items hawked around the streets. It has gained that country some infamy but also painted foreign victims as greedy people who'd fall prey to really stupid set ups. CRAZY.
118 · May 2018
THE MEETING AFTER.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2018
When I first met you years ago,
I had this strange, strange feeling,
I knew no what it meat at the time,
But I hated you for it, why?

Because courage failed me,
The contents of my heart burdened me,
The fiery look in your eyes frightened me more,
Magical beauty wrapped in simple tastefulness;

And after all these years,
I still feel these things in my heart,
And when you looked at me with equal interest,
Everything exploded into a million lovely pieces.
117 · Jul 2018
THE DILEMMA.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2018
Good habits,
Are difficult to acquire,
Even more difficult are bad habits,
To retire.
117 · Jul 2020
THE CLEANSING. (2.)
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2020
We're locked down, by order,
The body, none the wiser,
Will crave nourishment,
Of all sorts, moment by moment.
117 · Mar 2019
SOUTH, BEARING SOUTH-EAST.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2019
Never before has shame borne a new meaning,
The eyes failing to convince vision,
Seeing now is disbelief,
For all they are, and will be, is a terrible lie;

Right from the tarmac of the airport,
Greeted by stink and algae, rot and disrepair,
Gun toting men in military fatigues,
And a jumble of rickety trolleys;

Across dirt strewn medians,
Road blocks mounted by zoned out operatives,
Dusty highways dotted with gaping holes,
And terrible bypasses hewn into tired looking rocks;

Struggle across makeshift bridges,
Old railway tracks, abandoned,
Dark bends and dangerous loose surfaces,
Overgrown shrubs, perfect hideout for highway rogues;

The joy on our faces,
Whenever we arrive safe,
Glad to be off the hot, stinky deathtraps,
Of the north-south-east roadways.
A journey from north-central through south-south and south-east of Nigeria can only be best imagined than experienced.
117 · Dec 2018
LITTLE MUCH.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2018
Emperors of State cultivate hate on a scale,
Expect reverence from the victims of their wickedness,
Pitiable handouts unfit, even for illegitimate born,
Let alone the People of State;

Because something is better than nothing,
These young ones are forced to abdicate pride,
Stoop to get some scoop,
Or embrace perpetual indolence;
Nigeria's administrators at all tiers or arms of government continue to take their people for fools, they dole out ridiculous pittances and them "startup packs" or "empowerment", more of the later; and for those sensible enough to see through these deceptive acts, they decline to be part of the hypocrisy.
Those tin gods live in such opulence only Pharaohs, Caesars, Emperors and Kings were or are known for. But they convey poverty wrapped in elaborate ceremonial distribution programmes to those too weak to refuse their disguised malevolence. Someday Nigeria's young folk will arise to seize the reigns of governance and permanently keep those vagabonds occupying Olympus out of power
116 · Jul 2018
GREEN AND WHITE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2018
Nothing inspires here,
All there is, is fear,
Of hunger and penury,
Every evil more than legendary.
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