She finds her genius to be a lonely state of mind. So she’s built a barricade with thorns and wire entwined. Locked away with her papers and books making eyes at the mirror, that ignores her looks… That woman of stone she’s a lady all alone woman of stone. She walked boldly to the precipice […]
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I Heard You Chatting
I heard you chatting to Mercy and Goodness, saw you courting Favour too. I was told you were playing with Success, just after you’d kissed Breakthrough. It seemed you were running with Blessings, Elegance, Bravado, Romance, The world at your feet, not regretting, it was you taught St. Vitus to dance. Things have changed since […]
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Outsider; they don’t want me here
I can hear the whistle screeching as the train gets nearer up the track. Coming to take me away from here, this is another place I’m never coming back. Every time I nearly settle down I tell myself I’ve had enough of this town… Coz they don’t want me here I’m an outsider. They’re full of […]
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And No-One Said A Word.
“What’s happening?” The boy whispered through his fear. A man with taciturn smile missed the single tear- drop waiting, in the corner of his eye. The blur of passing images whisked the boy from his world, into another. Changed scenes, altered dreams. He was delivered… yet no-one said a word. Not a word from mummy […]
The words of Peter Akinwunmi (Peter Ak'i) 