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O God, this is a prayer of a grateful  💖   Your name forever be praised.  For your miracle again, has manifested Pastor Julius-PJ you gave us few years back His heart, future and whole we rededicated,  But years on he wandered; we wondered, “ifs” Questions tumbled to what panaceas to turn. Today, in thanksgiving angel Uju sings by him For, by your grace they found each other; and, By your mercy what restless wind and storms There were you have cast out of his as her life. Thank you for your mercy that has seen him Protected and shielded from all the darkness And turmoil that has consumed his generation. Your blessing that has seen him exemplary; as  Leading light followers of Christ in Ataga home I pray your baptism remain rooted in his abode  The Ataga homes and of all extended families; by Marriage, by assemblage in the name of Jesus. In Pastor Jay many have found on the pulpit: On radio your power to quench their longings Please help to renew him as he ...

Simplicity sings as sound the loudest To eyes seeing intelligently laden words Heavy as tedious entangled barbed-wire They are like ruminant ever chewing gum,  Sickened and repulsed by words seen as Unfathomable. Filled they are with frump. Waddling in the mud they always seemed In mortal fear of poured hearts on papers Like words to rage at, not sun of wisdom Simplicity has long consigned their fate to Seeing any complex properly penned poem a Swamp: to tax their brain walk damn hard past

                           1.      It is my morning, though shadows cast With whom I have become companion My talk mate who though never responses Agrees to all I say to help ease my worries It is a great day to go to the woods, meet dew Who draws water from weather to horde  Sprinkling enough to wet, cooling bones Tickling the buds famish for tasteful quench  Here on my side of the river, my eyes watches Toast to freedom, price that come with age I hunger for turn, to climb the stage, have a go Someday if casket would not have me first So time passed, the snake continually doffing Softly, steadily, subtly, rings of years fell off Casket of wood merged with earth, now sand Alas, all rise, the pond is mine to drink to my fill                               2 Picking the bunch eyes caste on my gluttony My dandy pumped unen...

There have been major shifts and changes in the social and economic landscape world over in the past four months. People everywhere have been constrained by emotional, business, financial, and psychological challenges; besieged and bedevilled by multi-faceted crisis ushered in by the mysterious and vicious virus nicknamed, COVID-19. The virus has profoundly attacked every class and aspects of our lives-be it in the killing of our fellow brothers, and sisters sent to early graves in droves. Or, the quavering of our political institutions, driving our political high-flyer players into shivers, anxieties, like ants in pants, meekness and modesty, unprecedented and dealing shock waves, commotion, and turmoil to our economic pockets, purses, or wherever you hide your monies as well as tossing and tumbling our social, cultural, and educational structures back and forth by decades. Covid-19, has turned out, a master misery courier that charts and follows its own course, respects neither the h...

What is the driving force, why sometimes, the clamour  Perhaps may just have started like a joke; then again  Poverty, anxiety and fear creeps on you on unknowing wee hours  And, when it becomes excruciating, there, rooted, is the rhizome  Mine started: like the vanilla milk shake; I was attracted  The sweeteners; the honey, the fat, I savoured  The aroma, powerful; I was inundated, pursued, harangued  And then, like one on a tenterhook, to the ravenous, I yielded  Then follows the presentment, I was handed my gift,  Like the nitwit's entrusted, a carefully crafted magical sopranino  That is when the very diligently choreographed, subtly sorted intervention sets off  My brain needy sensor systematically, simply, superbly, addictively, astutely, elevated  And in such dopey, opaque state, I stopped articulating, being reasonable  No longer able to cope; incessantly having a hard time, I was tormented: forming  A fertile...

With head void and light  Mind mildly, kindly and feeble  Was I bugged to my wits in queries:  Why raze at will to ground all life forms  Of why such physical loathsome feelings; Such Poisonous passion for destruction  Why the killings of sweet simplicity of nature  Earth flora and fauna lost to lust and gluttony With wars come defoliation, ruin, deforestation In scales that leave no repair room or reverse Leaving no channels for waters to run it’s flow Refusing hills and mountains of ground stance Bringing Being and the wild weird neighbours And ill-health as deaths our exchanging gifts.

This morning, I confessed to a lady whose husband had gone through some harrowing challenges that, I never knew that she had in her, such strength and staying power to nurse her husband back to health. I called her an incredible, unbelievable and amazing woman. I did all that because I had all along, always felt she was the one needing help. I thought that without her husband, her life would be very challenging, if not impossible for her to move around. And, I really, really feared and felt sorry for her when her darling husband took ill. He has fully recovered now and convalescing when we had our conversation. She told me how in the past four months, she had single handedly cared for all his needs; feeding, bathing, attending to his fecal matter, etc. Don't get me wrong, I am aware the female gender, human and animal, are made by God-mysteriously of unequal strength, patience, perseverance, accommodation, balance, stability, stoicism, reticence, etc. All strength of character most...