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I always knew a day would come that I'd have to write about this. For years growing up, born to a father in his early fifties, I spent each passing moment, every unexpected knock, every late night or early

Life sometimes gives you a bag of lemons just to test how you handle the sourness. Just know it could have been worse. @autofreak @surpasinggoogle

Those who are forced to leave their homes in a jiffy don't laugh - Airlift -It's an easy death when you are on the attack but it's always hard to carry the survivor's guilt- Wolf Warrior -All the gods,

-OF LOVE Colors A man is dubbed blind only when his heart becomes a blank vacuum Not when his pupils do not dilate, nor his retina holds no shade Though he staggers and falls and in the shadows of darkness

Opinions Today in transit, I saw an agile, youthful guy, clad in a top, branded _"own your destiny". He bore it alongside a bowl with which he begged alms by the roadside. My inner man yelled

THE SPLEEN (Healthy spleen, healthy living; a nutritionist’s perspective) The organ spleen can be dubbed pancreas by virtue of its functions in the body of man. Different studies conducted on the functions

MUSIC IN POETRY Every song is not poem, who dares contest? Today you'd hear no voice at the concert Do you not feel the pith and rhythm of the poet's poem? That you'd say every poem is a song less of drum

HOW TO WRITE A COUPLET THE RHYMING COUPLET CONCEPT Over the months, there has been an increasing stirring in my spirit to put pen to paper and make an attempt to address the persistent failure of many

SWEET DEFEAT (A PATRIOT'S SALUTE TO THE EAGLES) Sweet is the feat of the feet that marched, through the parch of time to the archway of glory Whose grapes were ripened in the scorch of the sun, and juice,

AFRICA IN ONE STANZA Hear! The wah-wah, rah-rah, the choo-choo and the roos The nuance in the ambiance of the black shores Through the Sphinx and falls, craters and canyons Through the creeks; the music

#WHEN A MAN LOVES Somewhere on the face of the earth Roses are cut, wars are fought Gold is mined, banks are robbed Somewhere in the wide wild world The grip and grit of a mans' teeth carves almonds out

IN PUBLIC PLACES The daily routine of the average man; safe the monks and the nuns who live their lives in seclusion, demands on him the need to leave the perimeters of his private space where he is privileged

A symbolic flash of the agonies of a loss He snuffed the finest from his snuff box, sniff snuff and tap tap tap, he tapped his head and brrrrrh bruuuu he shook his head. It took years for me to understand

This rare privilege, yes rare, was made possible by @autofreak and @gadgetaddict, thank you guys. Let me quickly introduce myself to you. ABOUT MYSELF I am Taiwo Oladele, dubbed, Katoonspeaks. I am an