Writings

  • Welcome

    Hello, I’m Olutolani, and welcome to my blog. I started this website as a place to put all my musings and writings. I started writing from an early…

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  • Hope

    Hope

    I am so very exhausted by it all. The grasping and the hoping and the clinging on. Modern life has become the endless pursuit of things you can…

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  • Forgiveness

    Forgiveness

    How can I forgive you for all you have done to me. How can I love you for all the terror you made me feel. How can I…

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  • The Plague

    The Plague

    There is a plague sweeping across the country, and it worries me. It’s not one that you can see, for it infects your consciousness and the perception of…

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  • Be Bold

    Be Bold

    The Dragon’s Head whispers by the light of the Moon: ‘Be bold. Not with might, and horns, and clashing swords, but with grace, poise, and kindness to all’.…

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  • Sorrow

    Sorrow

    Sorrow prepares you for joy.It violently sweeps everything out of your house,so that new joy can find space to enter.It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of…

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  • Love

    Love

    Jaguar looks at Panther, sees power and beauty,Panther scans the jungle, feels anger and fear.Jaguar beside Panther, feels love like the ocean,Panther looks away, thinks ‘don’t leave me…

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