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Chidera Odom
Restaurant Operations Manager @ Sundry Foods Ltd
Benin City, Nigeria
My love for writing comes with a simple humility. Words are my biggest friends, unless they aren't and I am at a loss for them.
I am an Inspiration, let me be your muse.
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Posted on May 9, 2025, 12:01 p.m.
In People and Society
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4 min read
This isn’t the tale of how I broke.
It’s pages of a journal I left open in the rain
pages smudged, but still mine.
Some bits are messy, some sound braver than I felt.
Don’t think I met someone new.
It’s the past jumping out to play GRAB, but I’m faster now.
Some people are made for y...
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Posted on Jan. 15, 2025, 8:26 p.m.
In Relationships
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3 min read
The wait was over, so in she came, like a stallion on Zeus.
A firecracker, bursting with Wails, not unlike the sirens with flashing lights.
She demanded attention, yet, when she was at the centre of command, she lay down to sleep.
In her presence, I felt both monumental and insignificant, a...
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Posted on Dec. 18, 2024, 9:09 a.m.
In Relationships
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3 min read
Dear Mr. Bosleyig,
That first day when we talked for hours on end, about everything, remains a memorable day for my life. The beauty of lying side by side was unforgettable. Sharing stories of my youth and childhood was intimate and freeing. Like a wounded puppy, you were careful, and yet, the t...
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Posted on Nov. 19, 2024, 5:45 p.m.
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
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3 min read
I hold the knife, sharp and fevered.The onus—he’d always say—is mine to bear.Do I accept or sever all ties?One glance at his mousey face, and I falter.For him, it's too late.The harm is done, wounds gaping and festering.He’s been hurt like this before, but I am no medicine.Not one of my bonds has...
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Posted on Oct. 22, 2024, 6:54 p.m.
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
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3 min read
I almost ate pasta au dè soggiére today. Do you even have to ask?That is Chidera’s whimsical way of saying “soggy pasta.” I blame myself completely. I was busy on a movie while cooking pasta on high heat. Genius! I was so giddy, that I was perched on my bed, half-sq...
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Posted on Sept. 29, 2024, 11:16 p.m.
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
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2 min read
Once I thought,If I had a shield, it would protect me from all.And what would it be made of ?Eggs?No, they would be too fragile for hard times.Cotton?They would get soaked with my tears, and become nothing.Wood?That’s worse, they feed fire and turn to ash.Metal?Its not heat resistant either. The ...
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Posted on Sept. 18, 2024, 9:43 a.m.
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
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2 min read
I was watching the traffic, and I thought of you,
You in all your glory, wading through the tirade,
In your usual way, beating down houses,
Clearing out broken up trunks.
It’s the normal route to get to you, through the metallic sea,
Only if you make the way open for me to get to you,
Willi...
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Posted on Sept. 8, 2024, 5:34 a.m.
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
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3 min read
Today is definitely a day for flying things.
That's the only explanation as to why my street is littered with wings.
Large and smooth, like from butterflies,
Only I know these are no butterflies.
They are vicious minstrels.Their big bodies hanging from thin layers of dry dust,
Flapping and ...
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Posted on Aug. 25, 2024, 9:25 p.m.
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
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3 min read
After you grew, you let yourself slip
Back to the place where shadows whispered your name,
Where the hurtful gaze seared through your soul.
Some say you were blinded by love,
That was why you endured the verbal slaps,
The virtual kicks that bruised more than skin.
You never gave as good as ...
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Posted on Aug. 19, 2024, 12:23 a.m.
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
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2 min read
It is true that you never really know how far you can go till you try,
One foot in front of the other and keep pushing on with your mind.
Its only then that you find out that "a mile, a minute" is not just for tales.
Your mind can make it happen.
Do you remember when you used to smile and hid...
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Posted on Aug. 12, 2024, midnight
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
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2 min read
I’ve always known that I wanted to be hot,
Not in the way you might think.
I woke up today wondering if I’d missed my ‘colouring’,
Not with my skin, (I love being black), but,
I’ve always felt I should have been born a redhead.
Can you imagine it? Adding that magnificent red to my black, the...
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Posted on Aug. 4, 2024, 11:55 p.m.
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
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3 min read
We were all well informed, but,We chose what we used for our debut.The flashy cars and pretty dresses,All those did not define adulthood's stresses.Life didn’t evolve, it’s the people in it that evolved,Our perceptions, our dreams, constantly resolved.We chase after the glitter, the glam, the fam...
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Posted on July 28, 2024, 10:41 p.m.
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
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4 min read
Contrary to what people see when they watch my smiles…”oh, she is always happy”, “oh, what a happy child!”, I have known pain. Sometimes, it is very direct. At other times, I can feel it rolling off my friends in waves. I have a large drum reserved for painful memories. Sad thing is that it nev...
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Posted on July 21, 2024, 7:02 p.m.
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
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3 min read
By the walls of Notre Dame, she sat wallowing in her pain,
Waiting for them to come and take her away.
The night was closing in on her sins,
Her days were completely over.
She knew from the start that she was doomed,
From the day she stepped into the ring, her victory was sure,
That alone s...
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Posted on July 14, 2024, 2:59 a.m.
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
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3 min read
If there were ever words more solemn, I'd say them to you.I know you cared, though in all your jokes, you called it love.I loved the way you love me,I could not get enough of my laugh,The more I took was the more you were willing to give. Around you, I basked in the true glory you carried,Yo...
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Posted on July 3, 2024, 9:10 p.m.
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
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2 min read
Cut it off!, I screamed. Off with his hands!, I yelled, while looking at my phones screen.Every few seconds, one profanity and another would slip out of my lips. These words, I usually reserve for those I can only insult in my head, but here I was, throwing them as casually as my "hi". Gue...
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Posted on June 28, 2024, 8:37 a.m.
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
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4 min read
One of my favourite artistes once said... "in life as in love, you need to remember, there's such a thing as trying too hard". Sometimes , life can go from smooth to rocky, or it could be love, but today, i'm not talking about love. I have seen too many people go through life with so much hardnes...
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Posted on June 20, 2024, 11:23 p.m.
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
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3 min read
Where did all the princes go? I wonder.The ones who were there to always pick you up, hold you up and never let go.The one who would hold your hair back when you're so ill and are throwing a fit.The one who is there to run defence when you start a sordid fight.Did the earth tilt and throw them of...
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Posted on June 16, 2024, 10:27 a.m.
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
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3 min read
I was that pure, untainted little person, little, in every way; size, body, mind, but my heart? Larger than life.I loved fully and hated the same way,I never lied without a sorry, inexplicable reason.I always tried to look my own definition of pretty.Sometimes, that meant half my bottle of lip gl...
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