It is three years now since I saw you last. I have not written in a long while. I have not written since then. Remember the handwritten letters we used to write ourselves. We’d both say that written love letters was our love language. I lied, it wasn’t mine. Spoken words of assurances and affection […]

I know what you did last Sallah
I don’t like Eid.
It is wrong when I say it like that. Because I do not mean it like that. I believe myself to be a fairly spiritual person, I like what Eid represents generally. I don’t like what Eid represents for me.
As the…

Schizophrenia
I personally know a schizophrenic or two and I am boldly telling you, it is the worse!.
Though these individuals physically reside in our physical world, their minds are anywhere but. They, at certain intervals, seem to exist in a…

Dissociative Personality Disorder (Split or Multiple Personality Disorder)
I first came across multiple personality disorder in a book written by Sydney Sheldon titled ‘Tell Me Your Dreams’, and later, in ‘Fight Club’. Over the years, I have come across video recordings of people who have this rare and complex…

Up, Side, Down
Let me tell you exactly what life does to you. Let me tell you what to expect just when you think you’ve got it all figured out and your path is set and you are the star of your own damn story. Life just pulls the rug right beneath your size…

CHAPTER FOUR: NOT YOUR TYPICAL GOLD DIGGER
‘Who doesn't like money abeg?' I shake my head comically at the obviousness of my wise saying.
'That's why you work for it. Not say that you have to marry a man who has money. That's gold digging'. The fact that Yasmin says things like…

CHAPTER THREE: MEET THE FAMILY
Legend has it that there was once a family that was as close to the ideal family as could be.
The parents were the best of companions, constantly teasing each other, eliciting so much laughter, the best buddies. The children were mostly…

A Prayer For My Ex
So this guy unscrewed my heart again
And all the nuts in my sense clattered to the floor
I was angry at myself for falling prey, again
So I reported him to God, and I prayed
I prayed rosy mornings and sated nights
I prayed…

A Tea Cup Of People
I make the tea
Brewed slowly
With a pinch of rage
A spoon of negativity
And a cube of toxic people.
I stir the tea
Mixed solemnly
By a pensive hand
And some sobriety
And watch as the people
Dance to their…

All The Things You Were
I You were far more interesting as a mystery The perfect profile with a fine faceOn your adventurous timelineYou had sensible picturesAnd captions that said you were nice
…
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