Between A Rock And A Hard Place

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There are words too full in my mouth.

Too heavy in my chest.

These are words I can't express.

 I've tried to swallow but I can't digest.

THE JUNE 12 THING

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“I tender the nation’s apology to the family of MKO Abiola, Also to those who struggle and stood for June 12.” - President Muhammadu Buhari at the June 12 Investiture of National Honours

One hand up if you believe the Nigerian Presidency deployed the apology for the June 12, 1993 election result annulment as a tourniquet to a haemorrhaging South-West Nigeria support?

Raise a second hand if you’re upset at this seemingly cynical move.

If you have both hands up, take a seat. Like Ygritte announced to Jon Snow on that faithful day, “You know nothing”

BANKSTATEMENTS POST 5

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RIGHT  DOWN THE MIDDLE


Hi @bankstatements18.

I'm in a long distance relationship with a guy that really loves me but then I don't think I know what love is.

First and foremost, we are of different tribes and denominations.. I'm Catholic and my dad is strongly against me moving to another church.. Worst of all, marrying into this particular tribe he's from will be a big problem.

Friends and Frienemies

What use is forgiving your ENEMIES, if you can't even forgive your own FRIENDS?

There's this "humour quote" that says - "The bible probably tells us to love our neighbours and love our enemies, probably because they are generally the same people".

Sometimes even the funniest statements contain constants of truth. Think of it this way - a lot of times your 'enemies' are simply friends that you haven't made yet, and I believe that friends are simply 'enemies' you've come to understand.

23 Lessons In 23 years

So...I've learnt a great many things in these 23 beautiful years, and I'd like to share just a few of them - only 23 of them, with you.  You may have seen these words before, but just not in this way...

Ready... Set... Go!!

Generational Hate

"And she gathered the children of many races into her arms, And said, "Hate dies here — be brothers."
~Harriet Monroe, "America," in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, December 1918

Triolet 2 - Dear Child

Triolet 2 - Dear Child

Refrain, dear child, from ways perverse –

Reverse, recoil, retreat, recede;

With wrong doers, do not converse.

Refrain, dear child, from ways perverse:

To you, let them become averse...

Unless on shame you wish to feed,

Refrain, dear child, from ways perverse –

Reverse, recoil, retreat, recede.

 ©Nwachukwu OlusegunNwachukwu.