BEHIND MY SMILES
Speaking Pen (Abegunde Sunday Olaoluwa)

Look onto my smiling face again;
these glows you see are deceptive Atlas –
joyous mat which covers endless pits of pain,
showing not the buried wrinkles in laughters.

I feel weak and broken into 7 like a week
with heart heavier than a solid brick.
My smiles are miles away from reality;
the lips still sing in spite heart’s impiety
’cause adrift I go from the narrow path
and regret pricks my soul like fiery dart,
shattering four squares of my periscope.

I’m drown in dark waters of hopelessness
of wearing again His gown of righteousness
’cause I’m now a bullet out of a gun
I’m now a dead sea whose breath is gone.
Those visions of the future once daily seen
are now but blurred by the little fox called sin.

Though I’d eloped with pseudo-dreams,
I’m back never to sing Him farewell hymns
This flowing poesy sea of a story
concludes with to God be the glory.
To God be the glory I’m yet alive today
to right my wrongs of yesterday
and as his sun, shine from cross to throne.
In this back-to-the-Father quest, I’m not alone.
The Son is with us in the sail back home
Never can we do it on our own.

By Abegunde Sunday Olaoluwa
(Speaking Pen)

BIOGRAPHY

ABEGUNDE SUNDAY OLAOLUWA is a zealous African poet and public speaker.
He is a good ambassador of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun
State. He is the author of “Unleash Your Potential: Beyond Just
Motivation”, Christian book, “Young Christians and Love” and a poetry
book, “In His Realm”. He is the curator of some poetry anthologies
among which are “We Cry for Peace”(2014), “Voice of Humanity”(2014),
“Love poem Anthology”(2015) and “Peace is Possible”(2015). An
exclusive interview with him was also published in the book “The First
Chronicle of New Generation of Nigerian Authors” (2015)
Sunday’s poems are contained in several international anthologies
including two volumes of “Art of Being Human” compiled and edited by
Daniela Voicu and Brian Wrixon, “Muse for World Peace Poetry”, “Wind
of Change” and “The Phenomenal Woman: Maya Angelou”.

Laurels include (among others):

+ Winner of World Union of Poets Prize 2016

+ Rate Top 20 on EGC List 2015

+ Association of Christian Journalist Writers’ Award, Outstanding
Young Achiever 2014

+ Creative Writers Association of Nigeria (CWAN) Award as Literary
Emperor Award 2014,

+ EGC Top 50 Poets That Rocked Nigeria 2014 and

+ Federal Polytechnic Ado-Ekiti Student Union Award, Most Inspiring
Writer of the Year 2013.

Sunday is the principal director of Speaking Pen International
Concept, Lagos, Nigeria and an official representative of Caprecon
Development Foundation, Luton, UK.