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93 · May 2019
SEAL. YOU. WET.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
She floated on my consciousness,
She danced on my hair strands,
She veiled me with ***** darkness,
She taunted me with ghostly waist bands.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2019
The world tries to tear us asunder,
They say we can't love each other,
Our kind don't belong together,
We're brother and sister.
92 · Jul 2020
WHAT LIVES MATTER?
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2020
The little ants by the edges,
Or the tiny microscopic ticks,
The scurrying roaches along the cracks,
Or the annoying rodents lurking the shadows?
92 · Apr 2019
BURNT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Here we are,
And you, over there,
Between us a misconception,
But alas! we destroyed the only interpretation.
92 · Sep 2019
CAUGHT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
Anger mixed with fear,
Is recipe for frustration,
One screams revolution!
And the other turns a deaf ear.
92 · Jan 2020
TRAPPINGS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2020
Dirt poor, low life lackey,
The son of nobody,
Gutter rat, poverty hugger,
Hardly a warm meal to eat;

But blessed by fate,
With power to stir minds,
Wielding instruments of revolution,
The gates of authority swing open;

Carried on the shoulder of the impoverished,
Feet washed in their blood,
Backed by their relentless hope,
And annointed by their faith;

Alas! Comrade turned traitor,
Refusing to yield the people's mandate,
Trampling on the same spirits,
That oiled your rise to prominence.
Many freedom fighters later become freedom killer's when they taste the perks of power and become drunk in its corruption.
92 · Jun 2019
SERVER.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019
Shared incompetence,
Centralised failures,
Redundant caricatures,
Secure flatulence.
92 · Jul 2018
OVER.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2018
The devil died in my arms last night,
She gave up without a fight,
I had lived with sweaty fright,
Always melting into something light.
92 · Mar 2018
THE DRUMS OF BARBARISM.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2018
But we are not at war,
This peace of ours demands too much blood,
Life has become an easy offering,
To the gods of acrimony and senseless aggrandisement.
Daily we see and hear killings, bloodshed of civilians, soldiers and the like in Nigeria and I wonder when we became lesser than human i our daily interactions???
92 · Sep 2019
CAST DOWN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
You took something from me,
And wish to be left with yours?
How degenerate can you be?
****** low life, cursed on all fours.
92 · Apr 2019
STAGNANT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Beloved shackles,
Fettered minds,
Hands that never want to swing free,
And feet contented with walking backward.
92 · Apr 2019
PROCESSES.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Thinking laterally from this point,
Or diagonally up a steep incline,
Thinking vertically, ascending,
Or descending without losing the nuts and bolts of this matter.
91 · May 2020
THE ROAD TO INTOXICATION.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2020
Perhaps the people are incapable,
Of producing anything good,
They'd do anything for food,
Even everything stinkingly improbable;

For how can one explain,
The corruption at the tower,
How the prominent, with disdain,
Treat the commoners they rode to power?
A little power corrupts the mentality of Nigerians at all levels. They simply forget where they're coming from.
91 · May 2019
HORNED UP!
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
Teeth sunk in the jugular,
With no hope in sight,
Then one, two, the whole herd!
Bravely rekindled hope for one last fight!
91 · Apr 2020
TALES BY COVID. (4.)
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2020
By the time,
This lockdown is over,
Brother, sister, you may not need,
A building called church, to gather.
91 · Mar 2020
I. BEEN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2020
No one can tell my story,
Any better than I experienced them,
Those cold and trembling nights,
When my body ate it's own fat;

Felt abandoned by my parents,
Left to the mercy of strangers,
That took me in, forgot to feed me,
Watched me shrink to the bone.
Between the years 2002 and 2007, my whole life was led one day at a time, many times hunger shook me like a fever, felt betrayed by my parents for sending me into the world to find mercy in the home of strangers.
90 · Apr 2019
INDEPENDENCE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Before the jack came down,
And the green went up,
Life was just bearable around town,
Today, however, the hardship won't stop.
90 · Apr 2019
WANTING.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Hunger holds me by the scruff,
Life has been so tough,
Nothing I get is ever enough,
Who will give me some stuff?
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2020
The long and unending nothingness,
Bright light or thick black,
Strung by the neck,
Or shot in face, neck and torso;

For killing a girlfriend,
Or stealing common patrimony,
For creating a deadly virus,
Or ****** a week old infant.
Should death be the end?
90 · Apr 2019
IRRELEVANT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Carroty hair,
Ginger beard,
Hour glass figure,
Snow White teeth;

Wait...what?
There are no children starving?
Adults living in cartons?
Nations rising against nations?
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2020
In times of difficulty,
Many reveal themselves,
The true nature is made known,
And put on display for all to see;

But in peace times,
You can make all talk,
Beat your chest at rivals,
Project an image of invincibility;

Then comes a damning curve,
Like the one a pandemic draws,
Showing weakness of inept proportions,
Struggling to make sense of it all;

You see a truly great nation,
Able to export good and evil,
Keeping its core untouched,
Turning tables at every turn;

If humanity makes it,
Albeit battered and bruised,
The ranking of nations will be revised,
To show, now, the true world power.
Countries like Nigeria aren't on this table.
It's the Communists and Capitalists.
Where the Capitalists have gone on to perpetuate a mighty image over the century,  the Communists have arrived and in a mightier fashion.
Nothing has exposed the Capitalists like the COVID-19 pandemic and sent them scampering in all directions.
The Communists alleged to have sponsored a state sanctioned biological warfare that didn't spread to their capital city, simply reached in to their well stocked arsenal and whipped out enough to deal the disease or infection decisive blow.
Now the Communists are offering aid in human or material resources to their biggest rivals, the Capitalists.
90 · Feb 2020
THE DEFICIENCIES.
Dada Olowo Eyo Feb 2020
It's well within my handicap,
To try and outdo my peers,
Sometimes I receive nauseating jeers,
But most times I get a thundering clap;

I can't relate much,
Love is far from me,
Terrible at daring or lunch,
Or a warm evening by the sea;

They say I'm a savant,
An autistic with amazing gift,
Raised by my doting aunt,
She put in everything, and an extra shift.
Nature compensates.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
Rolling in the hay,
Bright, with warm laughter,
The picture of the us together,
It was magical, in every way.
90 · Jul 2019
TRANSPARENT SKIN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
But here I am,
But why can't they see me?
But I'm as human as can be,
But this ain't fair, ****!
89 · Sep 2019
TUNNEL.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
Better late than not,
The long, drawn night,
Full of agonising fright,
Will not be our continued lot.
89 · Feb 2019
UNICORN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Feb 2019
You can never get it all,
Everything you ever wanted,
Those things you always dreamt of,
That...complete... package.
Have you seen a unicorn, white, with silver horn? I thought so, too.
89 · Apr 2019
CAUGHT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
The complexes that afflict my sensory synapses,
And the torments that assail my mental I'm balances,
All contribute to the ambivalence of my tough processes,
And the unwillingness of my backside leaving the soft mattresses.
89 · Mar 2019
THE BETRAYED.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2019
Tears woke me today,
When mother gave me away,
My heart was torn in two,
As I wondered what to do.
88 · Oct 2018
JUDGEMENT DAY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2018
When I pour the contents of my desperation,
Upon the tormentors of my miserable existence,
Only one outcome is surer than eternal damnation,
They will never stop paying recompense.
88 · Jul 2019
HYSTERIA.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
Something is broken,
Inside of the people,
They'd **** for a token,
And jump on any ripple.
88 · Apr 2018
KEEP IT LOOSE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2018
Do not love too much not to get hurt,
Keep the wall up enough to jump over,
For many wander the streets of insanity,
Not of needles, of powders or of tablets.
88 · Jun 2019
POTENTIAL INDIFFERENCE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019
Power down our differences,
Let our potential flow,
Light up our preferences,
Pray, let our love life glow.
88 · Jan 2019
WHOLE. SUM. PARTS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2019
In my eyes, my eyes,
I see, oh, yes! I see,
Hotter things than can be,
Much colder, even colder than ice;

When too big, too big,
Enormous even by all standard,
And failure a distant thought,
Nothing is large enough to scare;

The little ones that make big things,
So they withdraw their unnoticed labour,
Put down tools and make a protest,
Saying what the heck! We made you!

So much power,
But do they know?
Of course they don't,
Overworked even to bother;

But the day the sun shines,
On their consciousness,
And they are filled with enlightenment,
Olympus will have to sit up!
Nothing is too big to crumble. Simple.
88 · Apr 2019
THE STUPIDITY OF THINGS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Online, everywhere,
But with great convenience,
And accessibility anywhere,
Comes with even greater vulnerability.
As though putting all things online where a sinister ploy to gain access to everyone,  while selling ease of everything. VULNERABILITY. EXPLOIT.
87 · Sep 2019
SENSELESS SENSELESSNESS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
From a region of blinding light,
To a state of lightning blindness,
All gone quickly out of sight,
As brutish power is only hidden weakness.
87 · Jul 2019
THE MEDDLING HYPOCRITE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
All smiles as she sways toward him,
Asks if he knows the gym,
The one his wife frequented,
Same one the trainer befriended.
87 · Apr 2018
IMPERVIOUS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2018
Blood chilling howls of the children of state float into nothingness,
Merchants of destruction revel in the trade of wanton killings,
Powers and principalities celebrate a marriage of economic convenience,
Deaf, blind and mute to the daily anguish of the people of state.
Four years after the abduction of over 200  #ChibokGirls Nigerians are non the wiser...sad.
87 · May 2020
COVID EXPLOITS.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2020
Dear vulnerable People of State,
I come with pieces,
Of my broken heart on a wooden plate,
But for how long, these wicked policies?

Now we know, yes,
Reasons they gave, no?
Left their mess,
A lot of it, they let flow;

Hiding behind all sorts,
The people languish in lockdown,
Emboldened by haughty retorts,
They leave the vulnerable roam about town;

While they grow in ****** riches,
Their falsehood follows beyond reaches,
As tears wash over several cities,
They keep up their brazen stone faces
Nigeria is a rich country with the poorest people in the world. And COVID-19 has further impoverished the lot of them.
87 · Jul 2019
NO SKIN MAN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
Peeled of all identity,
Suffers untold ignominy,
Uprooted from the soil that he was birthed,
Now enjoys the luxury a notable deathbed.
87 · Jul 2019
THE PLACE OF QUIET JOY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
When children dream,
Where are they?
Sleepy laugh suggests a realm,
Where all they do is play.
86 · Jul 2019
LED ON.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
All my love, I invested in us,
Only for you to betray my trust,
You promised forever, and ever,
But all that didn't matter;

Because you fed me lies,
Treated me to grand deceit,
Brought me out in the open,
And told me our love was broken.
86 · Jul 2019
TRANSITION.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
How we clearly see,
When the darkness draws near,
For the unknown spreads fear,
Of what the other side could be.
86 · Jun 2019
THE DENIAL OF SERVICE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019
Angry man storms about,
Throws tantrums all around,
Access was continuously denied,
To the sweetest thing after warm chocolate.
86 · Mar 2020
THE COLLECTORS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2020
Shameless lectern robbers,
Pulpit thieves!
They have no qualms,
Duping the simple of GOD;

In a time of fear and great confusion,
They devise means of wanton avarice,
Taking from the poor and needy,
Unto themselves, ****** gluttons!

Corona, here's an assignment for you,
Pay them a quick visit,
Yes, the ones that see it all,
Now, let's see, if they SEE you coming!
It's a big shame that human beings that have elevated themselves into the position of the oracle of the most high continue to perpetrate and progress in stealing from the people.
Pastors, they call themselves, devising means of collecting all sorts of payments vouched in fancy religious garbs of offerings, tithes and whatnot.
They haven't found unique ways of reaching out to soothe the worries of their flock, bring them comfort in trying COVID-19 times but all they are after is their greedy bellies.
If people the world over don't realise the folly in their service to these pastors of deceit now, then no hope of ever having any sense again, forever.
86 · Mar 2020
SHUTDOWN. REBOOT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2020
An untimely occasion presents,
Here given an unprecedented opportunity,
To reshape the entire community,
To stop everything, and begin afresh.
The entire world goes into total lockdown as COVID19 coronavirus threatens the man's existence.
For countries like Nigeria that have never prepared for the worst, only choosing to behave like ostriches in times of danger, it is a unique moment to take stock, recalibrate and restart the system.
86 · May 2019
SEA. CORE. SHUN.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
Broken, down,
Or whether it be up,
Before you toss that top,
Stop! Is that a clown?
86 · Apr 2019
SHARED INSTANCES.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
The parts, in unison,
Every of them, one,
Contributing toward the overall,
Each conviction melting into the other.
86 · Apr 2019
FALLEN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Bless me with your aroma,
Capture my senses with your magic,
Wrap me in your divine allure,
Lock me up in eternal damnation.
86 · May 2019
STOMACH WHISPERER.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
My insides guide me,
Tell me what and when,
Whether before ten,
Or well past three.
86 · Jul 2019
THE LIE THAT TRUTH FOUND.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
Be good to get into heaven,
Forgive, everyone, seven times seven,
Turn the other cheek to your accuser,
Flee, quickly, from your lustful seducer.
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