The Cosmos is a beautiful place As beautiful as it is, there are toils we face Every passing day, we strive to be better And also try to get stronger When push comes to shove, family and friends turn strangers While strangers become... Read More
Dried Roses by Claire Eze
There’s this thing everyone in Lagos is acquainted with, something whose only job is to provoke. It stares you in the face with empty eyes giving no care to your social status, your health problems, or your efforts to revoke your financial... Read More
A Broken People’s Struggle by Dami Shittu
Lagbaja has been taken We search so tey we tire But we can’t find him anymore The high places have been halted The raving sun blasts our bodies Tamodu has been beckoned home suddenly What killed him? Silence eats our voices Because we see them, but... Read More
To the darkest night by Adediran Olusade
To the darkest night In my heart, Write I to fall into the ditch Not always out of reach. The night in my heart To be lightened by no small light. The dark night within the clothes Battering those thoughts, Till they pick the flesh to... Read More
My country is broken by Koleoso Teniola Olasubomi
My country is broken Where do we pick up the pieces? We are in tears with bleeding hearts Who would do the stitches? A country at war with her self Depressed people fighting against oppression Corruption almost in a state of... Read More
2038 by Anaba Elizabeth Ezenwanyi
Dear Diary, It’s October 8, 2038 today, the anniversary of the day we had our first hope and taste of true freedom, that unblemished independence. We call it the New Independence Era. We’ve started including it in our government and... Read More
Two Poems by Emmanuel Oluwatobiloba
It’s Not a Protest We wake up every morning to sad news We see heroes falling like the morning dews How many more to go? This is our Father’s land; where else do you want us to go? This is news that saddens the heart See our “Frenemies”... Read More
The Missed Priorities: A Poem by Ibrahim Abdulqudus (De Treasure)
With the spell of westernity. And our values in vanity. No one cares, the effect of its laxity. Obviously, as distress has been our identity. Where do we miss the road? The dawn of our political structures. Hinders not the rich, But in the... Read More
New-fangled Façade; Truth Unsheathed: A Poem by Adediran Olusade
The End has been called The truth is bathed with a voice Roaming the streets, screeching The voice as a roaring beast Summoning the dying quest Arousing the riveting thirst The End raises a beginning To the wakening of agility Long... Read More