You are at your desk at work and by your arm sits a jar of your favourite cookies. You reach…
Tolu AkinyemiFebruary 4, 2020
The fire's last embers long died outand empty beds remain emptyempty yesterdayempty today and forever but who remembers? It is…
Tolu AkinyemiNovember 24, 2019
If you make me fall in love with you Please don’t say you were not warned For as I fall,…
Tolu AkinyemiSeptember 14, 2019
Every night as she struggled to sleep a spider crept in through her ears and laid eggs in her head.…
Tolu AkinyemiApril 4, 2018
Early in the morning a true Nigerian meets a friend and like a game of ping-pong they play with greetings.…
Tolu AkinyemiFebruary 16, 2017
We built our love like a shelter you cut trees, I drew water you laid bricks, I made mortar we…
Tolu AkinyemiNovember 5, 2016
When you are single everything reminds you. Commercials remind you everything is cheaper if you buy in twos. Your big…
Tolu AkinyemiFebruary 20, 2016
I wait for love patiently the way one waits for a special delivery. All day, I sit by the door…
Tolu AkinyemiFebruary 20, 2016
Last night the boy was thirteen This morning he is thirty To look out of his window Asking ‘where did…
Tolu AkinyemiSeptember 15, 2015