Rasaq Malik Gbolahan

In Borno they build monuments for their daughters In Borno they pray for solace in the house of grief – at Nigeria

The third role of a Nigerian Poet is to hold candles when the night is pregnant with groans of mourners – at Nigeria

The second role of a Nigerian Poet is to watch as newscasters stutter as they sum the number of victims in a place where they spray bullets – at Nigeria

Here there are heroes buried like dogs there are skulls on the streets lost dreams straying in the wind ... – at Nigeria

The first role of a Nigerian Poet is to write a dirge before his demise: – at Nigeria

Tonight you sit on a wooden bed. She is somewhere there, listening to a radio, shaking her head as she hears the slow music of love... – at Nigeria

This love will sprout like sun in the bud of the sky Moradeke... – at Nigeria

They play a game of death with innocent lives Damn it!!! – at Nigeria

Who knows how to carve words if not the griot from the tribe of words words breaking the wall of thunder – at Nigeria

I also have a dream that breaks the wall of night – at Nigeria

I know homes where curses fly like feathers in the wind where children sleep with empty bellies I know homes where traces of tears... – at Nigeria

Thanks, Bro. How your side? @CarlTerver

Life as an activist: thenationonlineng.net/new/co… – at Nigeria