Kimi Shy

I sit in his lap as he tells me why he thinks I am the most beautiful girl in the world. We go out to do stuff to together with me taking premium seats better than those my millions of brothers get. I am both queen and princess here in his castle. I am entitled to his love his care and his attention, that's what makes me. So can you blame me when no man measures up? because nobody can make me the idol I think I am, the centre of his world just like my Daddy... Me and my Daddy Issues  I watch him as he drives away leaving her crying. I try to console her and she does try to be strong for me, but my hugs are ice where his were fire. She can't help herself as she sobs at night because he is gone. When I speak to him on the phone  he dances around the issue but not even I can make him come back so she can smile again. He has another family now a place where he calls home. Another little girl who is the world to him. I am the dregs of the forgotten trying to mend ...

      This one is dedicated to all the Nigerian girls who can relate. Here's to you.                                                    It's Friday afternoon, the day before Christmas, I am dreading getting up because I have been ignoring my mother's toxic side eye since and now I am just tired. I know how to complain well and I might even have a PhD in it so I turn on my complaining spirit and face it on my sister who is just desperately tired of hearing me groan. ’’Nwa stand up let's just start the work so we can have some breathing space before midnight mass". So we get up and go to the kitchen where my Mum has already stated defrosting ram meat, turkey and chicken for Christmas day. She tells us to get useful frying the buns and ‘puff puff’ from the dough she has already prepared and if we are lucky ‘chin chin’ is ...

I know a girl, she knows how to stop a crowd, though she is not the most beautiful, there is something about her that catches the eye. She holds her head high, laughs from her heart and wears a smile like gold. I know a girl with a heart so true a love so pure and a mind so strong. She wears her love like a dress and her thoughts she's not afraid to share. That's the girl I want to be, Soft and strong and pink. -YD                                                Soft and Pink is an expression I stole from Wendy Williams. I love it, because it refers to some things a woman sometimes is. I have been wanting to write on this and what it means to me for quite some time and my thoughts have been all over the place. So soft and pink, if your mind is not in the gutter when you hear these words, you  think of fluffy a...

I was roaming around during the week playing with a couple of topics for my next blog posts and I had promised myself that if I don't feel passionate about the topic I won't write about it. Then  I got inspiration, for this one when I went into a shop to buy some shaving cream and I heard the two sales girls talking about the third one who was not around. With the constant ''Na so she dey" and the  ''Person no fit trust these Calabar girls'' whispers I kind of put 2 and 2 together (experience from a life time of talk talk and listening to what is not my business, what the experts call insight... LMAO). The summary of their story is that the third girl was new and the store manager was sweet on her when he used to basically ignore the other two girls who have worked there longer and three of them leave together they are friends. Why are women so hard on themselves, why are we more judgmental of other women than we are of men. Maybe it...