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Apr 2020 · 124
WOGA.
Mofogofunoluwa Apr 2020
I knew woga so well,
Even if she was dressed in rubies, I'd still notice her several miles away.
I have closed doors, shutters and curtains in hopes that she won't seep through the hidden crevices of my home.
I don't turn on the lights for fear of the monsters that hovers above me.
I fear the fingers that always finds its way down to my stomach to taunt, **** and poke my ulcer, I fear the known.
I fear the very thing that's in the air, in my sleep and in my head, the very thing that whispers uncertainties
Woga  keeps growing her monstrous army day by day and that's what scares me the most
My darling Woga loves when I cry myself to sleep on her lap. She takes pleasure in her soaked skirt, she loves when I surrender.
Woga loves dragging my weary body across hills and valleys, until the earth becomes the color of the very thing coursing through my veins.
She's a lover that can never be satisfied.
Woga is Swahili for fear
Apr 2020 · 132
Eternity
Mofogofunoluwa Apr 2020
We spoke of an eternity together, just like Isis and Osiris. We prayed for an everlasting love.
We cried, we laughed, we kissed, and we spoke of our love.
Then boom!!! The madness
It started with the recurring late nights.
I thought the tale of the fisherman's wife was a myth, until I became one.
Now I'm on my porch, hoping you'd remember our love and come back.
- Adewale Mofogofunoluwa Eunice.
Apr 2020 · 222
Salty Tic Tacs
Mofogofunoluwa Apr 2020
I once had a conversation with the little girl with salty Tic Tacs streaming down her face, she said that it had been difficult keeping a tight grip on her sanity in a room filled with lunatics. She said that she was more of a recluse because the voices in her head had demanded to be listened to.
The voice tell her all sorts, funny how she referred to them as "people"  when they were her own thoughts. She said they all wanted to be heard and obeyed and she had been drowning in sermons telling her how to live, how to be better and how to do better, now she's drowning in an ocean of critics, each word reminding her how she would never be perfect.

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