We are always in one place or the other, often where we are in the dark and need light. Or we are in the sun’s glare and need some assurance. It has been one of those times for several people in this season, last year with COVID-19 and this year, with a million and one … Continue reading IF THE SUN WASN’T SO MEAN – Word for today (+POEM) by Su’eddie Vershima Agema
I have learnt to take a few things; to embrace the tears of others, whether in joy or sadness. It has been a year like that. 2017 was. I have grown tougher, and yet, softened too. I am not the man I was at the start of that year, or the man the year left. … Continue reading A RACE WITH SELF: A NEW YEAR NOTE
Next year… next birthday…. next Christmas…. and time sneaked in unannounced, uninvited sweeping it all away: the years the birthdays the seasons— leaving behind, only the fragments of the memory of a life and of a face too blurred for memory… in the twinkling of a lifetime. From the collection, One Day I’ll Dare … Continue reading as life goes by (a poem) by Hyginus Ekwuazi
There’s been much to the heart of late. Makes you really wonder about a lot of things. Society’s position on a lot of issues and the like. You see transformations, manipulations and you just keep wondering. Did you hear that by 2025 or so, robots would be brought to replace men in sex? Have you … Continue reading MEANING THIS MORNING
There was a crash yesterday. An air crash. It happened yesterday and has remained with me. It was the Dana Airliner that crashed in Lagos. It feels so sad. I would confess: Immediately, I heard of it and could access the manifest, I went through for any familiar name. There was none personal. Did I … Continue reading THERE WAS A CRASH YESTERDAY
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