Friday 16 May 2014

DON'T BE CHICKEN-HEARTED.BRING BACK OUR GIRLS

DON’T BE CHICKEN-HEARTED
BRING BACK OUR GIRLS
Over 200 defenceless girls
Have been inhumanely abducted from their schools
By a bunch of disoriented and mentally-thirsty religious militants
Who sadly claim they’re fighting against western education.
Of what significance is this act of cowardice
When the girls had no say in the setup of the educational system?
Ooh deluded sons of Africa!
Why fight vehemently against the spoon that feeds you
Yet, widely open your toothless mouths to the content of the same spoon?
Why resort to faceless acts of killing sprees and abductions
When you know your victims are fragile and can barely defend themselves?
Whom are you hoping to convert
When you’re happily slaughtering the same people you intend converting?
You have eyes
Yet you can hardly see beyond your eyelids
You have balls between your legs
Yet you behave like headless cockroaches on heat
You have faces
Yet you hide behind unblushing masks
You have heads which should contain brains
Yet they have become unwanted burdens to your necks
I do not practice and do not know much about Islam
Yet I know one thing for sure
That Prophet Mohammed would never ever
Condone these chicken-hearted activities.
You ignorantly claim you’re resisting Western education
Yet you people are operating with vehicles, guns and other equipments
Which are direct products of the same Western education you’re fighting.
If you have a point to prove
Use your brains to prove that point
If you have a statement to make
Use your ink to do that
If you want to bring a change to your society
Start with your ideologies
And desist from acts that will make your holy prophet,
Prophet Mohammed turn and weep in his peaceful grave.
Be real men
Stop being chicken-hearted
And bring back our fragile girls!

Monday 12 May 2014

TO MY DEAR MAMA ON MOTHER'S DAY

TO MY DEAR MAMA
ON MOTHER’S DAY
Dear mama
I wish I could also join others to celebrate you
I wish I could also call you on Mother’s day
To wish you a happy mother’s day
Like others are joyously doing.
I wish I could buy you a gift
To express my utmost appreciation for how wonderful you’ve been.
But sorry I have to disappoint you mama
I’m sorry I have to be silent
And weep in my heart of hearts
On a remarkable day like Mother’s Day.
I’m sorry I have to hide in my closet
And kneel on my knees
While I silently wail and pray
For the mothers of the over 200 girls
Who have been callously abducted in Nigeria.
Of what use is a smile on your face
When other mothers just like you
Who also deserve the same smile
Weep and go through boundless emotional pains daily?
I wish I could compose myself
And feign as if all is well
Just to put a smile on your pretty face.
Yet no matter how hard I tried to be a hypocrite
The more my emotions betray and break me down.
I thank you very much from within
For all the great virtues you’ve imbibed in me.
I thank you for being there for me at all times
I thank you for being the sacrificial mother you’ve always been
I love you
But sorry my broken spirit and grieving emotions
Aren’t allowing me to wish you a happy mother’s day.
Though my heart is heavy
I still want to you to know one thing is for sure
That I love you and I’ll always do
I love you mama!!!