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The tales of Abobi ; From Guest to Guardian

ABOBI; Abobi was born into lack,The kind that teaches you to count coinsBefore you count dreams. He knew hunger by name,Knew the weight of empty pockets,Knew what it meant to want… and wait,Dust on his feet, hunger in his bones,With dreams too big for empty pockets. Then one day, Life turned.Money came.Not slowly, not wisely,But suddenly.Continue reading “The tales of Abobi ; From Guest to Guardian”

My Mother’s Advice: Cut Your Potatoes into Bits

Cut your potatoes into bits; it cooks faster. My mother’s cooking hack and advice echoes in my mind. Like a cheat code, it always works, and it became a guide to my path in life. A great task looks enormous, and sometimes unachievable, but when broken into simple tasks, it becomes inviting. I did notContinue reading “My Mother’s Advice: Cut Your Potatoes into Bits”

YOU ARE NOT LATE — YOU ARE IN PROCESS

You failed.You missed it.You didn’t reach the target you set for yourself.And in moments like this, it’s easy for your mind to whisper,“Maybe it’s time to give up.”You cried so many nights,hoping the tears would wash away the heaviness in your chest.But nothing seemed to console you.You invested your time, energy, money, heart,and still, theContinue reading “YOU ARE NOT LATE — YOU ARE IN PROCESS”

THANK YOU to the One in the Mirror

“Thank you.”“I appreciate you.”“I’m grateful.”“I owe it to you.” Words we offer so easily,soft and sincere to friends, to family,to strangers who lend a hand.But rarely,so rarely,do we whisper themto ourselves. We celebrate others courage,their strength, their scars,their survival through storms.Yet when it comes to our own battles,we trivialize it and call them “ordinary days.” With hearts overflowing,Continue reading “THANK YOU to the One in the Mirror”

THE CANE OF BITTERNESS

Life teaches lessons.Some through love,some through loss…One of such story of loss is SADE Her last words cut deep:“The offended should not carry the offender’s weight.”Sade was a bright girl,an accounting student with beauty and dreams in her eyes.Life looked golden,until her internship in Akure.She lived with her unclethe man meant to guide her,but heContinue reading “THE CANE OF BITTERNESS”

Different Lens, The Same World

A Reflection on Perspective, Beliefs, and Empathy We often forget, beneath the vastness of this shared sky we are all walking through the same world,but rarely through the same eyes. You breathe the same air I do.We rise under the same sun.We feel the same wind.Yet somehow,we live completely different experiences. That’s the paradox ofContinue reading “Different Lens, The Same World”

FORGIVE YOURSELF

There comes a time when the weight we carryis not from what others did to us-but what we did to ourselves.That quiet moment,when your chest tightensnot from the pain of betrayalbut the shame of choices you wish you hadn’t made.We replay the scene,over and over—what we should’ve said,what we should’ve done.But regret is a poorContinue reading “FORGIVE YOURSELF”

My Father’s Advice: Your Journey Is Yours

It was the year 2000, and I was a headstrong kid.My father’s Peugeot 504 was the biggest in the neighborhood.I walked with so much confidence and pride—Until I saw Sunny Ade’s Rolls Royce, all gold-plated.I lost my pride. I had seen a car bigger than ours.My source of pride—our adored Peugeot 504—suddenly felt less valuableContinue reading “My Father’s Advice: Your Journey Is Yours”

DEMONS or HUMAN(poem)

We scream for mercy in sacred halls,Yet evil still walks through our city walls.The preacher prays, the imam cries,Still, peace eludes, and justice dies.So what’s the problem? What’s the cure?More fire prayers? A holy war?Is it demons haunting night and dayOr is it us who’ve lost our way?Who breaks the heart and steals the dream?WhoContinue reading “DEMONS or HUMAN(poem)”

The bigger picture

YOU ARE GREATonly as much as you can believeYOU ARE HONORED AND CELEBRATEDonly as much as you place yourselfYOU ARE VALUED only as much as the worth you place on yourself What have you done to yourself?Why have you compressed your worth just to be around?Why have you diminished your value just to fit in?WhyContinue reading “The bigger picture”