Sunday, February 15, 2015

THE MORNING AFTER – Adebanji Koiki


How she walked those heels were magical
Each step commanded decorum
Mouth aghast, wives clung to their husbands in fear
A beauty without company

A damsel
She could pass for a fine painting by experts
A body only fit for goddess
The reason bachelors work to impress

Only in luck did I get a chance to converse with her
Pity I suppose enveloped her to listen
Yet she accompanied my sojourn
Have I found favor or in a trance, perhaps she was tipsy?

Bright and early my soul surges and beside me lay the damsel
I had conquered the world last night
An achievement worthy of note to friends
She slept still as I beheld her face

Alas, she was not that damsel anymore
With the makeup had the beauty gone
The freshness was no more but acne
She was painted

I had been deceived
I had slept with a figment of beauty
I had slept with makeup
A story not fit for mention.

Friday, February 6, 2015

MADNESS by Adebanji Koiki

My smile does not translate happiness
Neither my job satisfaction
My existence spiritual
But living a dictation of the society

Three quarter of my being spent in classroom
learning the creation of men
Yet, no end to this triviality
which lies in papers after each completion

I bag all these degrees only to earn a title
The burden I was born to live
I am still the same man
only with knowledge of how the world works.

Tomorrow I start another journey in papers.
When will this madness stop?