Author: Damilola Afolabi

You’re a fake and I have proof!

You’re a fake and I have proof! Today you’re better than you were yesterday. To me that means you are a better version of you yesterday and yesterday’s version of you is now a fake. In that same regard, your today’s version will be a fake of tomorrow’s version. See, every finished product was once a raw material and after

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Your Star Eyes

The stars you wear shine through your hypnotic eyes. The looks that now steal hearts in 1 thoughtless stare. Caging minds in endless loops of your flawless skin. Yes that same shade of caramel you wear so gracefully that it glows with every break in light. Daaaamn! I can see souls gift their hearts to you in comments. Those who

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Your natural face is beyond art

It was artthe golden cover of shower on topthe umbrella that shielded the face of Eros.It was all art The white fitted nails that reflect the purity of souls to come,souls that its hands would carryIt was all heart Heart that made you shy,hide away beneath the well-inked shade of your graceful brown skinhiding your face from the sight of

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If I could Shazam the look in your eyes

If I could Shazam the look in your eyes, it would ripple beautiful melodies of slow alluring tunes, lyrics of which would tale fantasies far beyond the pleasures of hearts and the warmth of skins.It would play a minute of utter euphoria, in the calmness of drifting skies. A limbo I could get stuck in. If I could Shazam the

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Hypnosis

I took off to a place where vibes lived no more.Doors closed to the thoughts that once blanket me in the warmth of fantasies.Now at shore, sight seeing ships that sail nowhere,in oceans of waving colors. A ship or the sea?To sail or to drown? It’s easy to flip you see?but now I have a grip of me,yet I lack

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What are we now?

Dare I ask what the weather’s like  between us cos these winds shake my belief. Storm my castle and steal you away. Riding on chariots of doubt that race behind what my pace of dreams can catch. A million of those are broken.and now it’s raining pieces of my shattered heart, flooding the earth with my emotion. So let me

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White sheet Lover

Hello love, I called you this cos it’s the highest form of compliment I could think of. Even though I don’t feel anything for you. I know we connect cos you unlock my soul and let me bore my heart out to you. It’s been long since we last spoke. Those days when I’d lay it all out on you

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Swing into your arms

I detach from the arm that held me into yours,lightweight,lifeless,swinging to float across spacetill you caught meback and forth,left to rightour cha cha the dream of loversin melodies unhearddancing to the rhythm of nowin the spirit of freedom. So let it be knownthat before I touch the ground that would soon tame meI met youI, a leaf,you, my wind.

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Arrow through my eyes

Blush blooms to an apple in my eyes,the forbidden red that blinds my sight to fetishLust I thirst for deeply,an hunger un-quenching,a fetish un-cedinga spell to sought out cupidan action so stupidcos little did I know that cupid caught its arrowspell bound we both wereseeking a bite to haveso when I stepped in to askhe granted my wish like a

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Heart or Mind – Save one.

My mind wars with my heart in an elaborate scheme to keep it quiet. Don’t write! it says.“You got better things to do” bouncing words back as they try to stream to my hands. Heart pumping infinitely, words that bake in my head, an oven that’s now crowded – aching the mind that jails it while it begs its heartless

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