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Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
The earth is a prison,
No place to go,
Other than to the grave,
Down, down, down below.
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.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
And to those that have died,
To keep our children free,
Our loyalty, around you, is tied,
Always, to water, this freedom tree.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2013
They have died,
Our children are free,
We pledge loyalty,
To the tree of  equality.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
Suppressed by fear,
Chained by shame,
Then came fame,
And forced all to hear.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
Wondered if I'd have stayed hidden,
Kept everything behind sealed lips,
Because this fruit's forbidden,
And such act has burned many ships.
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.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
But this woman found power,
From the voices of others,
Marching down fear like soldiers,
In the sunshine, she's a proud tower.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2015
The supreme leader and overlord,
To his people, he is GOD!
He declares, and it comes to pass,
His nation worships him and westerners call him an ***.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
Block to block, to block,
The greens have no luck,
You can get limestone for a buck,
Or ****** grey outcroppings that actually ****!
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2013
Fire burns her with cold tongues,
She dances naked to the leaping flames,
We both play the fiery games,
Dowsing the heat with ***** moans.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2019
Deep within I think a darkness,
Something to destroy everything,
Then comes a shinning,
That fills up the nothingness.
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.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2021
Darkness,
Inflation,
Bigotry,
Nepotism;

Unemployment,
Terrorism,­
Kidnapping,
Medical tourism;

Miseducation,
Ethnic cleansing,
Mediocrity,
Tribalism;

Unease of doing business,
Multiple taxation,
Weak currency,
Egotism;

The shamelessness in high places,
The sycophancy along those corridors of power,
The visible aloofness to pressing needs among the masses,
The sheer policy of deliberate regional disempowerment;

Everything points to worse times,
Only the dead need not worry,
For the living, deafening chimes,
A worrying state of statelessness.
The man returns to the troubles he left behind - did he think that they would have miraculously disappeared?
Nigerians chase their president back from 'deserved rest' in the United Kingdom.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2019
At the centre of it all,
Is a red, festering offal,
Without bothering to ask,
***** hands take on this task.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2020
The world is a vulnerable place,
All that's needed is a slowing pace,
Anything to restrict global movement,
And watch how economies become insolvent.
COVID-19 exposes the world's underbelly. Many countries have become vulnerable as tourism takes a big hit.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2020
In what seems like a movie,
Art transforming into life,
The world can't take a selfie,
Thick fear can be cut by a knife.
COVID-19 stops social interaction the world over. Empty flights, tourist destinations and countries quarantined!
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2020
Panic creeps upon the world,
President's; their wives, footballers and Prime Ministers,
Large social areas have been walled,
Race is on to produce oceans of hand sanitisers.
COVID-19 targets important personalities, as preventive kits makers cash in on large demands.
Dada Olowo Eyo Feb 2013
Because you’re not in the orange overalls,
Does not make you a saint,
Don’t smear me with red paint,
Because you walk the hallowed halls.
Pen robbers that call gun robbers thieves.
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.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Nothing enjoys the everlasting,
For one day all comes to finality,
Ask the indestructible Kraken,
The day it set eyes upon the Medusa's head.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2019
Dreams shattered,
Aspirations asphyxiated,
Hopes extinguished,
Relationships destroyed;

That news everyone dreads,
Like a cold jolt from Hades,
It envelopes all in stiff darkness,
And pours grief plentiful measure.
A big plane fell and killed dozens of people, a good number comprising whole families. It is interesting to note that no great deal of effort has been out into engineering safer landing for planes in distress. Should everyone aboard a big bird perish just because...? SAD.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
All digital, floating somewhere around cyberspace,
Independent from establishment,
A secure form of tender?
But well suited for malicious ransom.
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.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2019
Dearly beloved,
Yet, here we are, again,
Winding down another year's grind & hustle,
365 daily sweating the bustle;

Forgive me, whither I crossed you,
Mine spirit doth deeply begeth your forgiveness,
Aye, the new year can only get better,
Sharing renewed happiness and plenteous laughter;

Our losses, though they hurt,
Yet all glory to Yahweh all mighty,
Christ, Yeshua, continues to reign,
Constantly soothing our searing pain;

I love and cherish you,
Please find a reason to love me, too,
Never doubt the authenticity,
Toward you, of my heart's clarity;

And as another journey beckons,
Into the the daily unknowns,
Remember, Yeshua will intercede for his own,
As he sits, aright, Yaweh's heavenly throne.
A Yuletide message.
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This is my 1000th post & I'm quite humbled with how far I've come. Many thanks to all that have followed,  unfollowed & followed again. May the forces be with you all.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2018
Between the hours of wee and dawn,
Many a reveler throng,
The house that party built,
To mad in the jolly new year.
Dada Olowo Eyo Feb 2013
Stretch naira through the window,
Get a pack of biscuits,
Chew, chew and swallow,
And savour the little bits.
We love buying stuff in traffic here in Nigeria.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2018
Everyday the sun rises over dead bodies,
Infants, little children and the innocent,
Fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers and the sinners,
And when the sun sets, it closes, on a worthless lives.
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 Jul 2019
Filled with unnecessary pressure,
Brainwashed into losing all sense ability,
Stripped of all decent adornment,
Put under tremendous falsity;

And for what?
To fulfil what society expects,
In the league of fertile life givers,
Underlying a wicked, sinister, world.
Many Nigerian women fall victim of 'Cryptic Pregnancy' or 'Phantom Pregnancy' induced by charlatans that go about promising 'fuit of the womb' where there is absolutely none. The inject these women with all sorts of pregnancy mimicking hormones, the women get bloated, then after nine months they're to sleep only to hand them babies stolen or bought from other women. It's a terrible situation. UNFOLDING.
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?
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.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2020
For nine moons and more,
This umbilical connected us,
You, I worshipped with heavenly adore,
Yet, our ways must part thus;

And you must find it,
In your beautiful heart,
Not to feel envy's heat,
But to welcome this new start;

I am a man now,
With a beautiful wife,
A girl and boy,
I'll turn forty in this life,
I, no longer, am your very good toy.
Many mothers find it extremely hard to let go of their sons, even after these boys get married, have children and grey hair!

Mothers, we love you, but we have our own lives to lead now.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2013
Where all the boyish men go,
That place of awesome magic,
Where they refuse to grow,
And time doth not tick.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2013
The days you held my hand,
Told me I was beautiful,
But now you lay beneath the sand,
Leaving me behind, unsure, and sorrowful.
Ajuma's Daddy - passed away March 27, 2013
I try, really I do,
Not to bring to mind,
That you are no more,
That I'll never see you again;

Your passive instructions guide me,
And the active one keep me going,
Your memory continues to ginger me!
All of which are clean, clear and unblemished.

At times like this I take solace,
In the cheer that you went away gallant,
Not wishing us any bother at all,
Strong, very strong, until the very end.
My father left us on May 22, 2016. He never saw my children, the oldest came in December of the year.

Today, my Dad would have been 88. I miss him very much, every time.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2015
But I made it past nineteen!
No boyfriends, or unwanted pregnancies!
Now, allow me beyond where you have been!
Let me take my own chances!
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
Overall happiness is elusive,
When components are in distress,
Never expect wholesome happiness,
When the parts are in a depressed mess.
Dada Olowo Eyo Mar 2019
I've lived with pain,
All my life in disdain,
But now it's summer,
And can only get warmer.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2020
The best time to be awake,
Is through the night,
Even if there's no light,
It's okay to binge on that cake.
In Nigeria most times than not there's no power but when it rains, like today,we don't give a heck about it all!
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2013
But the eyes by which I see,
Are coloured by affection,
The blind are lost at sea,
So are the fools that seek attention.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
The heart of a woman,
Is a yearning seed,
Seeking fertile ground,
Any other is a lifetime of regrets.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2013
On the day the sun blinks,
I lift up my supplications,
Grateful, in many situations,
Wacthing, hopeful, as the sun *****.
First 1,000 days in Abuja.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2013
Felt so much power,
Although I swung lower,
I could reach higher,
Although I still walked slower.
Still walking with the Lord
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2013
I soar, today, in the spirit,
My heart thuds sweetly,
Big smile as I cross the street,
My soul, dancing, ever so joyfully
fourth day on my walk with the LORD
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2021
On this day, it was a Sunday,
Just like any other day,
A lazy afternoon after morning service,
Day turned into night without notice;

I lost a dear friend that night,
With whom I earlier shared Christmas delight,
Cut down by a mad driver,
And never to bee seen again, never;

Many more would taste eternal transition,
The still dark murk welcoming them into oblivion,
Such was the terror of exploding ordinance,
The earth shook, hearts stopped, silencing all new year plans.
On January 27, 2002, the Nigerian Army Cantonment in Ikeja went off in exploding ordinance as their armoury caught fire.

Many Nigerians died, one of whom was my good friend in church. Run over by a speeding car.

It was a day filled with terrifying explosions and mindless running helter skelter.

Until today, the truth about what truly  happened is interred with those unlucky to have met gruesome demise when ashes rained from the skies and day turned into a disastrous night.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2013
To deny myself, pleasures;
That still, small voice,
Instructing I thirst in seven measures,
That I take ashes, as weapon of choice
Walk with the Lord - Day 1
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2013
The end begins,
When I take up my cross,
Redeeming my previous loss,
The beginning of better endings.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2013
Liberation glittered on the horizon,
My head pounding crimson,
I could see through the tunnel,
As I floated down the funnel.
Tomorrow ends the beginning
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2013
My soul aspires,
To heights unfathomable,
A place where all spiritual desires,
Are laid, bare, on godly table.
As I walk with thee, oh Lord, maketh thine face. to smile upon me.
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