WINNER OF THE TONY TOKUNBO FERNANDEZ POETRY COMPETITION 2022 IS TAIWO BAYODE. HIS BIO AND WINNING POEM CAN BE FOUND BELOW

Taiwo O. Bayode is a Nigerian poet, writer, and a law student at the prestigious University of lbadan, Oyo, Nigeria . He develops enthusiasm in anything that deals with writing and creativity. He writes poems,short quotes,motivational & inspiring words.    He develops much pleasure in writing about love and at same time poems expressing the full of glance of sadness, pity and sorrow.He has written some few works yet to be published, resulting from some due and undue issues, two of this books are “Encounter with the edges of love” (Poetry Anthology and “Blind” (a motivational series).     He hails from of Akure City, Ondo state, Nigeria. He is jovial type and he loves everything that has to do with football. He always believes in his personal life “ideology”, it is says, ‘life is a chance”, chance to be anything, chance to create and recreate, chance to sin and repent,chance to try, fail and try again, chance to be great. life is a chance to be the best version of you    His Instagram handle @blessedpen_ and phone number 07025108352. 

Dear me

Dear me, 

For sake of love,

  you were breathed into this

 body, you were given fleshy

skin to keep safe and nurture, 

If life treats this body inferior 

learn to uphold yourself. 
Dear me,

 For the sake of love, 

you were ransomed with

beauty like that of the stars,

 you were given this face, 

to be the color you wear,  

If life treat you ugly, take a

time to prove it that you

 are and always a beautiful one. 

Dear me, 

For the sake of love,

 you were gifted with lovely

companions and beautiful 

souls all around, you were

honored with family to feel

and know what love is, 

If they turn against you,  

do not turn against yourself. 

Dear me, 

You are light to 

your world and god to

 your godlessness generation,

 if the darkness hover harder  

its strong wings and they turn 

corruption to the food they eat

promise you refuse to

listen to their calls. 

Taiwo O. Bayode.