These Streets! One cannot forget these intimidating up and down stares furiously targeting the good citizens of this town. Who are these people, these faceless bullies and where did they come from? We used to fill and occupy these streets from corner to corner and screamed all day long as kids. Hey. We feared nothing at all because these streets belonged to us. We will not allow our streets to be deserted in broad daylight as if we’re back to pandemic days! My mother and father were born and met on these streets. I lived under their shadows after they introduced me to these same streets. I grew up on these streets, I know and speak the language of these streets and unreservedly own these streets. These streets gifted me my place in the sun and all the wokeness that comes with my birthright. I wrote these verbs, prose, and verbiage for you because I can. To remind all and sundry that Pikelela left his footprints on these timeless streets. Yep, these streets are mine, and I own the ...
My Butterfly! Living in my lofty apartment and glaring down these industrial buildings they call modern development. The loss of touch with Mother Nature is nausea for my soul. Waking up each morning without the choirs of birds singing for me is worse than the deadliest snakebite. Sounds of machinery, cars, and delivery trucks doing their day and night routine is nothing but jarring music to my soul. With due respect to the birds out there. What else can they do if my community has no trees? There can be no chirping birds without trees, no singing nightingales. Trees are natural platforms for birds. Looking through my windows, I can see jovial swallows heralding the coming rain. It is hard for me to believe this is the same town where I grew up as a boy. O God, we had all kinds of trees and types of fruits for free. But today? Walking down the open fields, we used to be surrounded by thousands of butterfly species all day long! Butterflies would fearlessly land al...
Do You Remember! Like a typical farmer my father was, the man simply and passionately dropped his seeds into the fertile garden and left everything else to nature. It is never the duty of the farmer to keep digging out the planted seed, checking if it has taken roots already. Remember, some things are better off when left completely in the care and embrace of nature! Now, it takes a little while for the ground to bond with the seed before any germination could take place. Nothing will happen until the very seed corrupts and dies before any signs of new offshoots can be seen. Hello. This was me in the making and germinating within my mother’s blessed womb. Like in the case of my father, my mother too; remained oblivious to the volcanic swelling developing until one fine morning. She woke up feeling nauseous and extremely dizzy. This was me officially putting my mother on notice… I am coming! From this point onwards, my mother knew she was no longer alone and had ...
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