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Hello. I saw you walk past my tent, In a garment fine as the morning sun. I saw you sit by the stream at night, Hello! Is it me you're looking for? Your eyes are heavy laden, Have you lost a rare gem? You tear and swim in despair maiden, Hello! It is me you're looking for. You swag and stagger away, Yet you have left a mile to me. I'd love to peep into your bosom, Hello! Is it me you're looking for? Hello! 

I WANT TO RAISE HUMANS, NOT GENDERS I don't really understand the kind of children some of our parents are raising now. The kind of children some of us grew up to become. Most parents are busy doing one thing or the other that they don't really have time to groom their children the way they should be groomed. In this 21st Century, we have some parents who still stick to putting more concern to the training of the girl child leaving the boy child to get lost in the shadow of their agonies. Gender has divided more of our values. The difference in gender has done a lot in the upbringing of our children thereby leaving many things unattended in the lives of our girls and boys. But why do we have to go to this far? I want to raise humans, not genders; not a Boy or a girl but humans without boundaries. People that understand their race and where they come from and why they are who they are. I want to raise children that can stand for what they are and not what the society want them t

POEM When I was 10, I was afraid of becoming 15. I thought I was going to die when I become 15. I became 15 and surprisingly, I was alive. When I became 20, I realized it was really beautiful then.  When I was 20, I was afraid of becoming 25. I thought that world would end when I become 25.  I became 30 and sadly, I was alive. When I became 35, I realized it was really beautiful then. When I become 40, I'd look back at 35 and think the same.  When I become 50, I'd look back at 40 and think the same. In front of death,every past moment is the climax of our lives. All ages are like flowers, It's just that we do not know how beautiful each age was at that time.

Photography Studio.  They said makeup is a facade, They said the artists are con men. They said they make the face another, They said they hide us out in the dark. They said photography is devilish, They add colours that are not real. They said photography is a flimsy facade, They smoothen faces and deceive hearts. I say photography is life! I say make up is the spice. Should we leave the crippled with no wheelchair? Or leave the half blind with no eye glasses? I say photography is confidence! It's life. I say makeup is rainbow! It add colours. Giving confidence and colours is what I do, Any profession more nobler? A photography studio is all you could ever need. It's all you could ever be. 

I am the Nigerian youth. They send me to eat in the kitchen when division are made, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table when decisions will be made. Nobody will dare say to me "Eat in the kitchen!" Then,they'll see how beautiful I am in decision making, And be ashamed.

When the future disappears. Is poverty a mere rag?  Or not having a clean haircut? Is poverty mere dirt? Or having no reason to live for? Even when they called for pictures,I was omitted. But I peep behind a mud stead, And stand even when I was ambushed by fate, Disowning the saying "Tomorrow will be fancy". I look on the river side and say"maybe next year".  And whisper to the earth "make way!". Poverty is accepting defeat when the future disappears, That nothing can be done about it. They laugh at me and scorn for fun, But my mother keeps saying" Tomorrow will be better ". Yes! It's not like you know all about tomorrow, Just because you lived today.