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Thinking About Love

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I am the Last Ruined NIGGA

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Have You Wondered Why

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Olatuja Oloyede: To My Brothers on the Street

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I Will Die Stealing

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My Beauty is My Doom _____Part 5 The End of Adunni's Tale of love

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My Beauty is My Doom____Part 4 The Whispers of Segilola

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My Doom is My Beauty_____Part 2 Adunni and the Spirit Bird

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My Beauty is My Doom____Part 1: Adunni to the Sacred Groove

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My Poetic Muse

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It was just....

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I Will Never Fall in Love Again

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The Three Nuts in the Calabash of Knowledge

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Someone is Thinking About Me

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Why I Can't be God

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Angel of Death

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Sleep of Death

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What I See in the Little Boy

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Cat in Mousetown

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I Am a Liar Too

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Who Will be the Next King

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Do Not Call Me A Village Boy

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To My Fair Lady

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Will You Marry Me?

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Lust and Beauty

Lust and Beauty - March 24, 2017 You twist like a serpent and smile like a goddess Each swing of your waist Is a heavy throb in my h...

Are We Not Victims Too?

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One Thing the Rich Man Lacks

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If She Says NO!!!

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Don't Call Me Your Brother

Don't Call Me Your Brother - March 29, 2017 Please Mr man Do not call me your brother I know how many children my mama has Do no...

Upon My Head the Sun Has Fallen

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Will You Dance to this Rhythms of Love

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You Can't Run from Me

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What is It You are Thinking?

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We May Hide Behind the Walls of Lies

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Big Girls and Fake Lifestyle

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When to Know a True Friend

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Unwanted Visitor

Unwanted Visitor - April 16, 2017 You the quiet messenger The custodian of the final gate of life A friend called enemy A brother ca...

These Starry Stairs

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Winks of Life

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I Am a Dreamer Too

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Joy Keeps Changing Apparels in this World

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A Poet is Who I Am

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Orekelewa

- April 21, 2017 Orekelewa! The beautiful angel With dazzling eyes like the stars Her hair black, full and fresh Stretch down the ho...

To a Young Child

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Rain from the Cloudless Sky

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A Beast From Which There is No Running

- April 28, 2017 A Beast There is No Running Is death the end of mortal dreams The hopes that once fuels a toiling hand Shall we all...

Love Made Me a Coward

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