Adebola Afolabi

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Born Adebola Afolabi – Business Consultant, Poet, Poetographer and Spoken Word Artist. REZthaPoet delves into different cultural and artistic shifts by using the spoken word poetry genre to educate, engage and entertain a growing and displaced middle class. His most recent chapbook, “Beautiful, One” (2018) , is a bold collection of poems that share experiences on love, sensuality, and lust as a departure from cultural silences. Exposit (2015) , his Spoken Word album, embodies a beautiful hybrid of language, traditional folklore, transatlantic artistic developments and an accessible poetic content. He has graced several stages in Nigeria and across Africa for over eleven years. He has also worked on collaborative art projects with visual artists and music artists. REZthaPoet performed at the Kwani Open Mic (Nairobi) event in February,2018. He also performed at A Local Act for Peace, a one-day cause festival championing peace in the world. The event showcased artists and artistes in Sweden, US and Nigeria which was simultaneously beamed across three locations; Stockholm, New York, and Lagos. He has been featured in major culture events like SpokenWord Paris (France) , and Lingua Franca (South Africa) . REZ has also been a panellist, guest, and performer at the Lagos Books and Arts Festival, the Lagos International Poetry Festival (LIPFEST) and the Lagos Biennial Festival (with outSPOKEN) .)

The Best Poem Of Adebola Afolabi

The Yesterday After We Met

Yesterday it was, when we first met
Yesters' days have queued into the past
As our todays move cautiously
Like the eyes watching a toddler step
Fast, then slow
Slow and fast
So how did it come to be?

A suspect's suspense
On attractions distraction
So could destiny-trojan-gift me this present?
Insinuations,
The what-ifs,
Their substances and this very essence.

I searched your eyes
And found nothing but innocence
I searched again,
And there it was,
Guilt.
Therelies, the half lies that bear our half truths
Those that make us whole
Showing to us how much human we still are
And that we still have got souls.

You lust me into love
And you lost me in love
So much that now I see beyond your cleavage
Straight into your heart, naked
With love visions like x-rays.
That now, I see your secret
The one,
That coats your innocence with guilt
The truth, from which your suspect persona was built

I see the nakedness of my heart in yours
Already as it bores,
The way I see and think
The obvious,
As it is about to be
And the realization stings
That I can't explain
Why that yesterday, after we met

I bought this ring.

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