"As your best friends" started Gozie, "we are entitled to some benefits na" My Dad had just sent me #100,000 to celebrate my birthday coupled with other gifts sent through Nosa, the family driver. This man thinks money is everything sha. I mused as I saw the credit alert, then a message from him which read "My Coco, you'd forever be my...
18th February doubled as my birthday and my mum's remembrance. My 19th birthday was supposed to make me super elated being that I was a year closer to leaving teenage hood but it didn't. Instead it brought about the reality of me living and leaving teenage hood without my mother. The circumstances surrounding her death still left me in shock even after 7...
This day, 26th December 2017 Pondering on the former things Yesterday, I would say still The massacre of my soul Bloody excesses spilled and they allowed it flow Continuous pounding of my ego Which they fed on to grow theirs Ohh! I forgot to add the dismembering of my parts My! My! I was seasoned with hate Placed in a pot filled with...
MEETING GOZIE 2 So we spoke over pizza and bottles of fruit juice. I gave mostly one word answers to her questions. "It was nice meeting you Lima, it's been awhile since I met someone who had similar perspectives about things" she said whilst sipping her juice. I only smiled in response. Girl!!! Don't you get it?? I'm not gonna be friends...
MEETING GOZIE I had just been admitted into the University of Lagos. I was lost, very lost. I refused to admit it though. After Nosa, my family driver dropped me at the school gate, I insisted he left me alone (I hated being followed around) " Aunty Lili, you sure say you wan walk?" He asked in his singsong voice " Am...
Still got the love notes attached to the flowers you always sent The bottles of perfume you bought me Still got the empty box of chocolates you last sent The memories of the times you had with me I hear your voice in every sound Obsession? No, I'm not obsessed They're all reminders of how deep I fell It's hard to tell But...
"Lima, Lima, Lima!!" shouted Gozie, bringing me out of my reverie "Err..Yess!!" I responded, unsure of what she had said earlier. "What were you thinking about?, 'cos I was asking you about your plans for school tomorrow and when I noticed you were in your own world,I had to start shouting your name" She said laying emphasis on 'your own' and looking at...
