Lagos, like the mythical elephant ugly and attractive a moment it is flooded the next it is a silk smooth dazzling fragile strong and enterprising accommodating and regale If a capital city is needed you check the boxes exotic tastes eyes for beauty energy and…

Paul Bunyan and Johnny Appleseed had agreed to mediation their relationship as iconic legends frayed, upsetting their fans “I plant trees and you chop them down!” “I do nothing of the sort, Johnny! I harvest timber! Apple wood is no good!” thundered Paul, while Johnny…

You Can’t It took man thousands of years to domesticate wolves. What makes you think you can tame my wild in just one lifetime?

content warning: just sad feeling Tired soul, weary wanderer, it is time to rest. You’ve fought hard but now the fight is done. You’ve done so much; you’ve done your best. It does not matter whether you’ve lost or won. At the end, all sins…

I grew up in small cities Asphalt coexisted with huge lawns Sprawling green/ blue parks Houses nicely spaced so you couldn’t hear What the neighbors were watching on television. We had the best of both worlds i suppose Well placed schools, Public Libraries just the…

Gyugyi all bent and twisted Shedding scales as she goes along An uglier form, you’ve never seen.   In The caves above the hills She lived all lonely in the dark Picturesque if not a lonely spot.   From that dark and lonely spot She…

You aren’t really asleep. Not even at night You’re just waiting for the sun to rise. Your streets always welcome me home. Late nights under streetlights Farmers market on Saturday morning makes me smile The magic I felt as a child seeing your tall buildings…

Moments of trials no one expected As the buzzing city finally slept Turning days gloomy and unreal Nights into a dark tomb inadept   Fearing the air what it could hold Unaware of the days and time passing by Hope, it is stuck in the past Bearing each moment…

a city of mushrooms filled to the brim with grazing giraffes and death-dropping drag queens I want to live in a fantasy I want to be surrounded by a fairy tale coupled with what our own world ought to be loving and caring and inclusive…

Citadel Of words Of thoughts Wherein To hide To blend Be lost