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97 · Apr 2020
TALES BY COVID. (7.)
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2020
By the time,
This lockdown is over,
While the poor become poorer,
The rich, unfortunately, become richer.
97 · Jul 2019
COMING OUT. (3)
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
So he took my innocence from me,
And frightened me into muteness,
He went to town mocking my silence,
Saying there's not much that I can ever be.
97 · Jul 2020
ENABLERS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2020
They act one way,
But reveal another,
They say good today,
But really do not bother;

Thiers is a milky mirror,
Reflecting good intentions,
Whereas behind the door,
Lay unimaginable tribulations;

Once out of the womb,
The state clothes poverty,
People pay their way to the tomb,
Accompanied by all sorts of uncertainty;

Thus empty husks await,
Liberation at the borders,
Stuck here, tolerating what fate,
Over there, better opportunity reorders.
The Nigeria state enables extortion, regression, repression, depression, oppression, disillusion, suppression and overall backwardness.

The vast majority of people in Nigeria wish they were not born there, many claim they love the country but are actually stuck there in hypocrisy.

If offered an opportunity, many will denounce citizenship and announce loyalty to the better climes even if he'll offered any of such.
97 · Sep 2019
STRUGGLE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
The sun, it rises upon my defeat,
And sets deliberately upon my immense sorrow,
Daily I wallow in miserable agony,
Drown I, a thousand times, in cheerless wantonness.
96 · Mar 2018
PUSH, THEN PULL.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2018
With little dainty feet,
And cute milky teeth,
She takes strong steps forward,
And reverses without facing backward.
96 · Dec 2018
BODY PARTS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2018
Gruesome, gory happenings in the land,
One day, one dismembered body,
Young boy, teenage girl, old woman,
Just any unlucky fellow would do;

So, as the Yuletide rolls in,
And the lust for money fills the air,
Maddened fiends take to dark alley ways,
To make a killing to pleasure their desires,

This fetish is about a crazed notion,
That offering cadaver to the devil,
Brings instant riches and wealth,
Often promoted by lazy myths and indolent legends;

No one is safe,
Anymore than we truly were,
But the season triples in the letting of blood,
Enriched by psychopaths running amok;

Everyone prays here,
Like they have any other choice,
Their safety is in the hand of GOD,
As security agencies continue in perpetual failure.
Ritualistic murders of people have risen to all time highs this period in Nigeria. Daily the people are confronted by pictures of people beheaded and body parts taken for whatever reasons. It is unfortunate that the Nigeria Police only rushes to parade suspects and never taken painstaking time to actua;;y investigate reasons behind these unholy acts. Christmas and New Year celebrations are around the corner and many will go to evil lengths to just to make an impression. SAD.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
The velvety breeze of the desert,
Caressed my bronze skin,
It's golden shimmer called out alluringly,
The silky smoothness ran through my fingers,
And danced seductively under my aching feet.
96 · Sep 2019
SITUATION RED.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
But for the greed of men,
Would our spirits have floundered?
Daily robbed by the looter's pen,
May we have been plundered?
96 · Dec 2019
SWEET THATCH.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2019
My eyes never beheld,
Ever, such mound of pure bliss,
Pleasures of silky goodness,
Once in, no reason, to leave.
96 · Mar 2020
THE ORIGINAL LIE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2020
It's all comers thriving port,
Where receives all questionable sort,
The white Jesus, blond, blue eyed,
And the point where freedom died;

First came an American man with suspicious payload,
But caught by the eagle eye of an Amazon bold,
Whereas Adadevoh gave her life, to save hundreds of millions,
Ebola disease had no qualms

Just as we thought this too shall pass,
An Italian man skips our terrible defenses,
Who knows how far he had transmitted,
The deadly Wuhan China Corona Virus;

Codenamed COVID19,
The potential annihilator has arrived,
Coconut heads responsible for early detection,
Obviously busy enjoying some unwarranted vacation;

And as the many have taken to prayers,
To ward off evil from their areas,
The charge is to ruling class,
To not confirm theirs is the true natured ***.
COVID19 WUHAN CHINA NOVEL CORONA VIRUS HAS BEEN RECORDED IN LAGOS NIGERIA, AND NEIGHBOURING OGUN STATE.

How did the Italian man gain entry since the 25th of February only to be found on the 27th of February?

Questions are being asked, but are they the right ones?
It is rightly clear that a bio warfare payload can be delivered into the heart of the most populous black country on earth. Zero defenses.

While the one percent political elite continue to enjoy splurges of affluence at the detriment of the ninety nine percent impoverished ones, it is the prayer of ordinary Nigerians that such tragedies occasionally, if not regularly, visit the architects of their miseries and misfortunes.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
Spring, wilted rose,
Why she was taken,
Nobody knows,
Too much sorrow, to take in.
A young lady went missing in one of the suburbs of Lagos State, Nigeria. And for eleven days family and friends went by all out. Sadly, her remains were found in a filthy canal, after she was washed away in a flood when attempting to cross a street on a commercial motorcycle.
All hope came to nought as news of her untimely demise filtered in.
Another one on your hands, Nigeria! May her spirit never give all of you that have made motorcycle a major means of transportation in Nigeria and made our roads deathtraps.
96 · Apr 2019
OBNOXIOUS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Looting money is an unnatural affair,
May be out of fear,
Or a deeper handicap,
Not unlikened to stuffing loads of crap.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
Roads paved with sweat and dedication,
Making for free and unhindered motion,
This deliberate act of civilisation,
Is one vision shared by the entire nation.
96 · Apr 2018
THE DRY TIMES.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2018
The treasury is nigh empty,
Oh, what troubling times,
To arise with stomach full of hunger,
And behold my sweet mattress with a heart full of anger.
95 · May 2019
WHY? WHY? NORTH.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
Hotter than better parts of hell,
Heathens know not to fraternise,
It's haram to try, even to modernise,
Holier than the devil's backyard, everyone can tell.
95 · Mar 2018
THE BIG THREE-EIGHT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2018
Woke up feeling no less older than last night,
But this sunrise opened wider my insight,
Life is a beautiful gift,
And amazingly some do not get the drift.
I am 38 today.
95 · May 2019
FLATLINE.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
The proliferation of idiocy,
Calculated time wasting,
Vast amounts of buffoonery,
And targeted efforts at nothing.
95 · Mar 2018
STRANGE, STRANGER.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2018
Almost, it seemed,
But the more it seemed,
Seemingly, the less it seemed,
Seeming the more it actually seemed.
94 · Apr 2019
EAST VERSUS WEST.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
On this side of the equator,
Are lone wolves and gunmen,
But on the other side,
Are terrorist **** of the ****** earth!
In what appears to be a watering down, the American news media never refers to perpetrators of heinous massacres by the very same nomenclature they hang around the necks of those in the same line of callous business. WHY?
94 · Apr 2019
BOTTOM.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
So, how far would you go,
To experiment your own conviction?
How far down river would you row,
To experience reality of the other's  contrition?
94 · Jun 2020
WHITE SNAKE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2020
They offer a seat at the table,
Something quite irresistible,
Far enough not to contribute,
But close enough to be seen;

This of oft the fate of faces,
Of people with loud consciences,
That appear to be with the people,
But only bidding time for opportunity.
Many activists in Nigeria go quiet after getting plump jobs in the corridors of power. A strategy of keeping their mouths shut while turning them against their former camps.
94 · May 2020
MY FATHER. (1.)
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2020
He gave us the good,
But I must find better,
For years I misunderstood,
Why he wasn't a goal getter;

Now a father myself,
I see with different eyes,
Be true to thyself,
Even if others see lies.
My Father died on May 22, 2016. He was 80. I still hurt.
94 · Jul 2020
FEMINISM?
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2020
Taking their rightful,
Place on the wrong,
Side of historical,
And perceived curses.
93 · Jul 2020
MASCULINISM?
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2020
A ******* estate of,
Might is right where,
Gentleness is weakness and,
Violence takes it all.
93 · Oct 2018
THE WOE OF MEN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2018
Women.
Women.
Eve.
Delilah.
93 · Feb 2019
THE NAMELESS ONES.
Dada Olowo Eyo Feb 2019
Aye, mine heart is brake in twin,
At the callous mowing down,
Of creatures toiling for daily subsistence,
Piled like logs in hurriedly dug pits;

Unmarked shallow graves dot the landscape,
Burnt mud houses, too,
Unharvested peanuts left for vermin,
To do with as they please.
Many victims of Nigeria's ethno-religious wars are buried without fully accounting for their identities. SHAME.
92 · Oct 2018
TREATMENT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2018
The cancer continues to eat away,
But they continue to merry and pray,
The People of State continue in agony and pain,
But they love the irony for their gain.
The Nigeria system creates monsters that feed on the blood of the innocent; only for their nepotic and despotic rulers to turn around and hunt these unfortunate beings for sport. Sad.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2018
And here we are, helpless, hapless,
Struggling with the little things that pleasure the small minded,
Whereas brilliant minds are weighed down by daily living,
Incapacitated by the stupidities of the glutton one per cent.
92 · Mar 2019
NOISE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2019
Cacophony of colours,
Bombastic bedlam,
Deafening distortions,
Onomatopoeic obfuscation;

All a mumbo,
And annoying jumbo,
That thingamabob,
Or is it a thingamajig?

Things we barely pay mind,
Stuff dancing around the mind's corner,
Clutter of confused emotions,
Just there, causing misdirection.
It's somewhat painful to rise above the constant jamming of high and low frequency characters stopping us from seeing the bigger picture...clearly.
92 · Sep 2019
PRODIGAL.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
Wallowing in the ruins of failure,
Fate has left me no joy,
Deserted by all goodwill,
I am here, alone and destitute.
92 · May 2020
SOME DEATHS.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2020
Any death diminishes,
One less of our humanity,
Whether remote or personal,
Be known or unknown;

But this one hit home,
A favourite of mine,
A screen gem, no doubt,
Taken, too quickly, without goodbye.
Irrfan Khan has died. Long live Pi!
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2020
Life is but temporary,
Whether ordinary,
Or with affluence,
What's left is the essence;

For there was a confidante,
Whose opinion was sacrosanct,
Loathed by not a few,
Loved by others that had no clue;

In him was the ruler most pleased,
To direct and plant the right seed,
To direct the affairs of state,
While staying in the light of his shadow.
Nigeria's president has lost his chief-of-staff to COVID-19. The elderly man was an erudite lawyer and administrator infamously perceived to be the head of the government within the government not Nigeria + the Cabal.
His death however comes with a lot of conspiracy theories that he had died two weeks ago or much earlier than that or that he was secretly flown abroad for COVID19 treatment.
92 · Jan 2020
INFECTED. (1.)
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2020
The jump,
Nobody saw it happen,
They turned, all of a sudden,
Bodies falling with a great sad thump!
Finally, WHO declares the novel Wuhan coronavirus a global threat to world health as confirmed cases recorded in the United Kingdom.

Even the uninformed could have seen this trajectory and calculated that it would take less than a month for the virulent strain to reach every continent in earth.

Are we witnessing the first human population culling since the bubonic plague?
92 · Mar 2018
IN TIMES OF FLUX.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2018
Everything is moving in every direction,
And nothing ever remains in position,
As the clock ticks off with mercurial accuracy,
There is no time for a second look at intimacy.
91 · Nov 2018
FRIENDS WITH LIABILITIES.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2018
Getting in trouble,
Taking stick,
Breaking back,
Always grounded;

When I was older,
Alone, I would ponder,
Each time I remember,
Playing the problem solver;

It never ended well,
I would come up short,
Beaten down, for standing up,
In detention, fantasising freedom;

They called themselves friends,
But wanted only benefits,
Like leaving all the ***** dishes,
After a sumptuous sunday dinner.
I have never bothered much about their current predicament, no, not until they began taking sides with the generation that has kept them impoverished. The same people that have only benefited from the benevolence of Nigeria but have poured copious amounts of malevolence upon later generations. Elections are few months away and they will again spill blood to give their oppressors free reign to flog more sufferings into their already bent, misshapen backs. SAD.
91 · Jun 2019
NOTE TO SEVENTEEN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019
If you can see me now,
Will you be proud of how,
Things have turned out,
And give us a big shout?
By the time I woke up at thirty, and hadn't realised my dreams of thirteen years back, I could have continued to blame naivety but instead I looked up the road and took in my knapsack. STRONG.
90 · Aug 2019
EXTREME.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2019
Surely, you can't be serious,
What do you see in her?
Is she that precious?
Enough to die there?
90 · Apr 2019
DIMENSIONS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Boyfriend, husband, father,
Bae, hubby, daddy,
You may call me Freddie,
To me, one, and to them, the other.
90 · Apr 2020
THE MIND.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2020
You will wage the greatest battles,
Of this life, not with hardware,
But a crises of contending emotions,
Feelings struggling to gain prominence;

Whether they rule you,
Reining them all in,
Or succumbing to the intrigues,
All end in that one place.
90 · Jul 2019
HOW MANY, HOW MANY?
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
Homeless, sleeping under the skies,
Hungry, scavenging among rotten piles,
Naked, shivering in the wild,
Sick, hanging on to dear life.
90 · Jan 2020
MY CONCERNS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2020
But why are women like this?
Mother never wants to let go,
Wife wants mother-in-law out,
In the middle, without a clue.
It's always a dicey situation in many African homes.
90 · Apr 2019
HIDES IN A MARSH.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
As far as the eyes can sweep,
Over the highs and beyond the lows,
Terrain not at all firmer than most,
Haul in a day's wage of sweat.
90 · Jun 2020
CUTOFF. (1.)
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2020
The future is in jeopardy,
As the present erodes all merit,
For the past disappears with alacrity,
In the face of continued discredit;

All know that advances of tomorrow,
Are built on foundations of today,
As yesterday gave us innovations to borrow,
And instructions to put on continuous replay.
The Education sector of the Nigeria state is in danger of advancing mediocrity as they gave set the lowest standards for the workforce of the future.

The unified exams that select prospects into tertiary schools that grades students in four subjects each one hundred marks, now require just twenty-five per cent as pass make for those wishing to get into the college's of education! While others require a mere forty and thirty per cent to gain entry into university and polytechnics respectively.

Anyone with a modicum of commonsense will know that this is a deliberate act to further plunge Nigeria into abysmal economic situations among comity of nations that set higher standards for their future workforce.

At this rate it will be a wonder if there will be a viable country in the next century and if there were, then will be a puppet in the hands of greater powers.
90 · Apr 2019
REVERSE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Many, many moons ago,
They came with sea prisons,
And now after many seasons,
The people risk all to have a go.
90 · Jun 2019
HEIST.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019
It was a simple plan from the start,
And every little detail was in place,
Until you showed your angelic face,
Then the mission became your priceless, beautiful heart.
89 · Aug 2019
CROSSED. BREAD.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2019
Take love, knead, twirl, knead, twirl...,
Be careful, let not your ego swell,
Bake at a degree of expectation,
Serve as is hot, eat with dedication.
89 · May 2020
MY FATHER. (3.)
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2020
All I am,
Today, yesterday was made,
For tomorrow, by him,
Out of love, and humble foresight.
I believe the greatest thing my father bequeathed me is education, more formal than informal, and an exposure to the world of computing.

My father died on My 22, 2016. He was 80 yeas old. And I still hurt.
89 · May 2020
FOUR. LOW. IN.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2020
Suddenly,
Unexpectedly,
Sadly,
Unbelievably.
COVID-19 has forced many employers out of business, employees out of work. In one of the most horrible times ever experienced by mankind, the world is groaning from the after effects of a global pandemic.
89 · Dec 2019
BENEFIT OF TRUST.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2019
I'd rather not doubt,
Your good intentions,
Even ignore my perceptions,
Of what you're truly about.
89 · May 2020
THE ASS AND THE LAW.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2020
Ridden by the high and mighty,
Drawn by the low and downtrodden,
To do with as they well please,
Not minding anyone they displease.
To the highest bidder!
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