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Dublin, Ireland

In Relationships

Who would have thought we would be where we are?Yesterday was pain and today was supposed to be gain,But everyone says "we wait for the future"Are ...

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9 upvotes

9 comments

Bint As-samt🧚🏻

Lagos, Nigeria

In Relationships

A One Sided Love, Sigh.🧚🏻

Ohhh, my dear beloved,Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever truly meet you.I sit at night,My mind wanders—Then the thought of youMakes it stop.Gives me t...

295 views

2 upvotes

0 comments

Letters from Delight ⁠♡♡

Abuja, Nigeria

In Literature, Writing and Blogging

Don't Tell Me To Put Myself In Your Shoes

Because I have shoes too. They are not bougie, nor Nike, nor Gucci, nor Zara, nor Chanel. They were carefully crafted with piercing thorns, and the...

160 views

23 upvotes

19 comments

Esther Omemu

Oslo, Norway

In Literature, Writing and Blogging

What It Means To 'Carry Home In A Suitcase'

I have always wanted to write about living in the diaspora. It is not an original thought but since the moment I packed my bags not once, but twic...

295 views

4 upvotes

5 comments

Bolanlejesu Akinola

Dublin, Ireland

In Literature, Writing and Blogging

What Does It Feel Like To Be Chosen?

Be everyone's hero every day but sometimes step away to break downCry and pat your shoulders all by yourselfEveryone sees you but they don't really...

714 views

6 upvotes

3 comments

Ayo

Lagos, Nigeria

In Literature, Writing and Blogging

Battlefield Me

I said to myself, let sleeping dogs lieI knew that my mind was a lieIt's all in my headThe painIt's all in my headThe tormentIt's all in my headThe...

71 views

5 upvotes

5 comments

Stacy📚🌹

Abuja, Nigeria

In Literature, Writing and Blogging

Chaos

CHAOSWhen scrambled thoughts, hurt feelings, and pain bring about chaos in our souls, this is a heart-wrenching spoken word short story I wrote tha...

29 views

5 upvotes

3 comments

Potato

Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria

In Politics

Republic Of Embers

Our eyes, red from the flames,the annihilation, burned into our retinas.Is it freedom when my country is a living cell?Up north, the shepherd bleed...

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4 upvotes

2 comments

Bolanlejesu Akinola

Dublin, Ireland

In Literature, Writing and Blogging

Release Yourself Too

I see the four walls you built around meI know what a cage looks likeYou used me to aid your satisfactionAre you pleased now?Now that I give everyt...

564 views

3 upvotes

4 comments

Esther Omemu

Oslo, Norway

In People and Society

My Knees Are Cold!

I did not expect to be talking about loss this soon but oh well, such is this fleeting, unpredictable life. They say grief manifest itself in many ...

107 views

5 upvotes

6 comments

Bolanlejesu Akinola

Dublin, Ireland

In Literature, Writing and Blogging

A Love Letter

Best in loveYou make love so easyI see your sincerityIt's the pureness of your heartThe integrity of your spiritYour humble mindHow can I resist yo...

723 views

5 upvotes

4 comments

wrightwriteswrit

Lagos, Nigeria

In Literature, Writing and Blogging

'Noise'

The world's crazy yunno.If only the world could be a little bit quiet,But I only have to block my ears.It's not 'truly' possible,But it would suffi...

26 views

3 upvotes

2 comments

Deleted Account

In Literature, Writing and Blogging

Devil's Pov

302 views

4 upvotes

4 comments

Bint As-samt🧚🏻

Lagos, Nigeria

In Literature, Writing and Blogging

Born Into The Unknown.🧚🏻

There she was—Lost in a room filled with emotions.Covered in blood, but it wasn’t pain that confused her… it was identity.She didn’t know who she w...

267 views

2 upvotes

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Bint As-samt🧚🏻

Lagos, Nigeria

In Mental Health

She’S Feels Insecure, Again.🥹

There she was, seeking validation again.She looked in the mirror.A little makeup on my face wouldn’t hurt today, she thought again.She put up the c...

246 views

3 upvotes

0 comments

Esther Omemu

Oslo, Norway

In Literature, Writing and Blogging

For The Poets Who’Ve Borrowed Their Metaphors

To be a poet without a story feels like an irony because everyone assumes you must have suffered greatly to write something beautiful. That great a...

583 views

9 upvotes

13 comments

Deleted Account

In Literature, Writing and Blogging

Tethered

All my life, I’ve searched for purpose.Or maybe… I tried to define it.Tried to mold it into something tangible —something I could carrylike a name,...

278 views

3 upvotes

2 comments

Bundynotted

Lagos, Nigeria

In Arts and Crafts

Good Day To Mourn

Grey skyEyes cloudCloudy with a chance of tears rainTight smiles, condolence whispersAt vesper they gatherThey gather bonded by griefWail, weep, so...

25 views

4 upvotes

4 comments

Praise Agunna

Port Harcourt, Nigeria

In Africa

Voices Unbound

Voices unbound, our sorrows unleashed We scream and hope our voices are heardWe cry, blood dripping freely from our eyesOur mothers wail, their han...

332 views

5 upvotes

1 comment

Bolanlejesu Akinola

Dublin, Ireland

In Mental Health

"How Are You, Really?"

I thought I heard "How are you?"But what I missed was the "really"My default answer is usually "good"Because I'm programmed that way, it's what soc...

341 views

11 upvotes

14 comments

Ink Horizon

Abuja, Nigeria

In Literature, Writing and Blogging

Of Serpents And Maidens

Perhaps it was the red of her dress,or the glass of her skin.Her jet-black hair,or the smile—cleverly cut—he swore could light a winter's eve.He he...

230 views

3 upvotes

1 comment

Matthew Okibe

Abuja, Nigeria

In Literature, Writing and Blogging

“I Carried You Like Something That Could Break—Only To Realize It Was Me”

I don’t think the worst day of my lifewas loud.It didn’t announce itselfwith shoutingor slammed doorsor final words that sounded like endings.It wa...

72 views

6 upvotes

5 comments

Bint As-samt🧚🏻

Lagos, Nigeria

In Literature, Writing and Blogging

The Art Of Noticing.🧚🏻

The heart once sought noise.The soul was loud—needing the littlest attention,yet never settling.Always seeking.It couldn’t sit with itself,not even...

330 views

2 upvotes

0 comments