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Yes, You’re A Narcissist

Good looking, impeccably dressed and a high-flyer, Dave Mebude is the “poster boy” for good genes, high fashion and career success. Yet, he has dark personality traits – his “best kept” secret. Wait for it, Dave is a Narcissist! Yet all the bosses love him. He is the ultimate lap dog and suck-up artiste. He […]

Only flirty girls wearing revealing clothes get raped?

Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there […]

Discussing Mental Health Amongst Corps Members With Balikis Akinjobi

Overtime we’ve been having issues with depression and other mental health related ailments which are rampant in the society  making it important for young people have better understanding this issue. As part of the drive to heighten mental awareness in the country, Fitila’s Balikis Akinjobi shares her perspective with corps members. Excerpts.   What is […]

Listen

To the music that fills my head— The musing of a tearful sun; Headache of a still volcano. Listen To the lyrics that depart my tongue— The lyrid of a proposed death; Burns on an earthly skin. Listen To the drum my heart beats— The damage on a thundered tree; Rhythms of an icy fire. […]

I Hope You Can Hear Me

I hope you can hear me as I tell you this Even if your suffering is taking too long And you feel like you're drowning in your struggles Try to hang in there and be strong.   I hope you can hear me as I speak I might not know what you’re going through Or […]

How Can I Explain?

How can I explain? Who do I tell my pain When the earth under my feet trembles When the vein in my wrist stifles   How can I explain? With whom do I share my story When tears flow down my cheeks And leave their trail down my face   How can I explain? Where […]

I Am Life

I will make myself like a green leaf, That dances to the tune of the breeze at dusk, After it shot moment with the sun all day, Still green and evergreen. I would leave the path of my past I will never walk through them again I am a new born soul! Withshowersofariantfeeling. I was […]

An Ode To Happiness And What Looks Like Her

  Dear Happiness, I was told to smile through My ascension of smoky mountains. To fight back tears after losing a battle. I was told to make a cosy bed of thorny roses. That it was cowardly to show weakness, So I bottled in, pretending I knew you.   Dear Joy, I think my mirror […]

The Flux Of Identity

  after a prolonged war with life, for the first few moments, we become sullen and then lonely, until our spirits become pale and void. the light departs our soul and living becomes as purulent and desolate as a necrotic wound. the theory of depression is dark. nobody seems to knows why. even the mystics […]

Mentally Broken

By Elizabeth Peters   I didn’t know… I didn’t know… I didn’t know that he could have done this…   On that evening in his room While we are supposed to just study He began to touch me wrong I told him to back off I didn’t want to take things this far this early, […]