poems, short stories, faith.

Every morning I wake up, The most important decision I have to make is; To talk or not to talk? I mean, Everyone says put yourself out there, No one will know you if you don’t put yourself out. And that’s quite true. What’s also true for me is, By putting myself out there, I put myself in the danger of being misunderstood and making blunders. So every morning I wake up, I have to decide which will work better for me. Every morning, In making a decision to talk, I have to be prepared for the embarrassments that come with it. And I have to start obsessing about it . You see, I love talking with people and making friends. But, you also see, Before talking to someone, I ask myself a trillion questions, Sometimes and most times, I convince myself meeting people is not worth it, I mean, have you met me!? I’m good enough on my own, (But Then, am I?) My inner voice has become more of a monster, Too notorious to be drowned by any ...

My name is Enitan and rightly named so. My whole life is a storybook filled with so many memories. My earliest memory was in my mother’s womb, I was eight months, I remember hearing voices of conflicts outside the wall, I remember at those times, I’ll kick the walls in anger because I wanted my peace.  For starters, I never wanted to do this earth journey; I was enjoying my time with Eledumare and the elders until it was my turn. I begged the elders to plead my case with Eledumare but they all refused. So they sent a once upon a time happy child to this corrupt and evil-infested world and I became an angry child. Why I was sent to a poor man’s house of all the places on this earth is one thing I’ll never understand. When I asked Him, he said my purpose was to bring happiness. He didn’t even have to send me to planet earth you know, because there are other planets where the citizens are happy, everybody lives in peace, no one is too stupid to be deliberate in des...