Black Woman, you are strong and kind. You carry your pain with grace and I am in awe of you. But I am baffled by your endless quotes from Michael Baisden and Dr. Farrah on how and what a ‘Real Man’ should be. I am left to wonder if you are capable of formulating your own thoughts or even realizing that you are not in a relationship with either one of them.
When you realize that your relationship...
February 04, 2014
October 07, 2013
An Ode to Nigeria Pt. 2
It is in that careless whisper that I hear your familiar voice.
Through your eyes I regained my pride.
Your distinct smell embrace me and your kitchen is alive with activity.
You are glad to see me again,
Though your house untidy and stinky,
You still make a place for me.
You oil my feet with sweet memories past.
I know now that I am home.
I always and will forever love you, Nigeria.&nbs...
October 11, 2012
UNIPORT 4: Now that you have Spilled My Blood
My name is Ugona, Chiadika, Lloyd or you can call me Tekena. Murdered by my brothers before a biased jury, Justice herself was absent. Men without souls administer their version of justice. What was my crime? No one will ever know because Justice was absent. I was murdered on the same street where a new mother was raped and her husband was made to hold the flashlight while she was being raped. I was...
November 21, 2011
Behind the Prison Bars
I love to speak from behind the jail bars of civility so that my words may not be bound by this ‘innocuous’ incarceration. Some people call it ‘Civility’. But I call it a façade of falsetto that hide who they truly are. Life is ruthless.Everyone seems to be the judge of your life.I hear their Gavel slammed against the table to remind me of my missteps. But I have learned to care less.I have deprived...
November 11, 2011
For the Lover Yet to be Known
I cannot get myself to tell you that I love you. It is not because I don’t love you. It is because when you stand thre looking at me like that,your unbelieveable beauty causes words to take flight from my thoughts…and that thing you do with your dimles renders me speechless. Good night ba...