Category: Everyday Life

Our queries and complaints were quickly receivedFor we tanned gold as we simmered and cooked Marinated by the sweat and saltHad the day shone any brighter, we would have become a crispThank the heavens for needn’t be billed for dusting our lungsHuffed and coughed were the new daysWe felt all was lost for we had…

“I hate you!” “I hate you!” She repeatedly shouted. These were the very words that were sinking the titanic. The onlookers could not weigh in the source of the murky waters. But his heart and mind were in limbo leaving him speechless. This left nothing forthcoming from his word distributor alas not even a sound…

The word itself reeked of undeniable indifference. The sort of face that only the dead exhibited. And like a spectre his unquivering eyes could not stop glaring. There was no emotion, his unending stare left the hairs of my body standing with a deep sense of loss. No words came from him. No! Not even…

Clogged! All along I did not know that this is what had happened to the little pipe that run down from my brain to my little fingers. Writer’s Block some call it but like the traditional lazy African, I had to find someone to blame for my slacking off. How could they? This is the new type…

Dear G, My hand quivers as I clutch the quill to pen these words that have been locked deep inside my heart. But I guess I can’t hold it down much longer for the dreadful tiger seeks to jump out of the cage that sealed its roaring and tearing viciousness. It is not long since I…

That is the comment I got last week as I traversed the different social corridors meeting with my friends. I couldn’t come to understand how I was the cause of obesity. How? None the less, I will not fall to your antagonism. I am going to be impartial and indifferent. As much as I hid from…