LETTER TO MY FATHER

 Dear Father,

I had a sober reflection of the good times I spent with you while you had breath in you.
My eye brows were raised by the thoughts of you, my eyes were drowned in tears. Goose pimples chose to cloth me.
We had fights!!!
Yes I miss those fights!!
We had fun!!
I miss that too!!
You were not a star, you were a galaxy.
You weren't a human, you were super human.

The love I have for you is like a copied assignment I can't explain it.
I miss our arguments
I miss our word rhymes
The thought of that awesome voice of yours sends chills down my spine.

A blind man could see your goodness, a deaf man can hear if your kindness, the dumb man could speak to the world of your tender love.
My love for you won't crumble like TB Joshua's building.

I can remember vividly that night you left, the stars didn't come out because they were mourning their very own!!

I miss you!!!

Mr Banks.

STORY OF MY LIFE (1)

From time immemorial, I have always had a weak way of looking strong. People took me for granted, friends enjoyed superiority when I am around them, father called me jelly fish, siblings gossiped about my weakness, I had no interest in anything my male folks do. I hated football to the last letter. in fact, I abhorred everything that males do. One day in secondary school, I think it was Jss3, all hell was loosed against me that day. I received all types of insults from people that I felt I was stronger than. I knew actually that I have stomached 4 coolers of insults, Inside of me was vibrating like a nokia 3310, my heart was boiling in anger like the hot water mother uses in making pap for us. I was searching for who will be a happy victim of my thunderous slap. I wasn't greedy. I just wanted one person only.The boy whose locker was close to mine suggested to the class that they check if I had a third leg at all. Ikenna a tall dark boy who ugliness embraced and swore to let go came to touch me with his hand that was as rough as sandpaper, he equally came with his body odour that pigs jealous. I stood up abruptly and forgot my fist on his mouth, before he could gain balance, I gave him a teeth re-shuffling slap that sounded like a banger. Tranquility drowned the class with other boys looking at ikenna exactly the way the philistines were looking at goliath the day David killed him in a duel. My shoulders went too high that i feared being a hunch back victim. People who gave me insults of my life defected like Peter Obi and became my fan within spit seconds. Before I could make another move, I woke up from sleep!!! DAMN! It was a dream. Does it mean that I am actually weak? *strolls away.

Mr. Banks.

SHADOW

Dear shadow,
I thought we were friends?
I saw you as a companion.
I loved your company.

I like you by my side.
But you are stubborn.
You go before me always.
I can't catch up with you.
When I try, you run.

You are a copycat!
Must you do what I do?
Must you jump when I jump?
Must you stop when I stop?

You are a betrayer!
You walk with me in the day
But dis appear at night.
I have lost my trust for you
Where do you go at night?

You now live a separate life.
You now have girlfriends
Must you visit them at night?
You go to see them and leave me to walk alone at night.

You are a coward!!
You are an impostor!
Bring all my clothes back.
Don't walk like me again.
Don't behave like me again!
Go! Go! Go!

Mr Banks.

DEATH and the aftermath

If I died today, there would be messages of how good a person I was,you will say how you loved me, you will go to school,they'd make the announcement and people would observe a moment silence for me, most of you will attend my funeral, you will talk about the memories you shared with me. You know my problem? Most of you treated me like a rag. Most of you will cry when you  remember how bad you treated me. But you will not let people know the reason behind your tears! IT IS A SHAME! Most of you don't know how much a person affected you everyday until they are gone. You don't realise they had a purpose. You look at their empty chair... you have to delete their number out of your phone and the only thing left is their pictures and memories. If I die today don't open your dirty mouth to say you where there for me when it is a lie!! I don't know about anything you say when am dead!!