What is life through the eyes of a child? Before one reaches that pivotal age and ascends into their 20's. The end of innocence. These are the eighty-one lessons of life that I have learned in my short time. The final observations before leaving the teenage years. A collection of poems exploring gender, youth, womanhood, and other social structures. Life. As it is.

Trapped. Surrounded on all sides by an overpowering barrier visible only to you. A barrier consisting of your thoughts, your dreams, your hopes, separating you from the rest of the world. Thoughts struggling to escape, the memories vivid in your head. You're trying to push back the flood of emotion, trying to break down that wall that's separating you from the judgement that awaits you at the other side. Your fears captivate you and morph you into a new person entirely. Surrounded on all sides and breaking into cold perspiration. Enveloping you is that same fear, gripping at your heart. You stand still hoping for the storm to back down, hoping for another chance. Sooner or later you're faced with reality and you'll know there's no turning back. All that remains is a whisper of silence.

❝We all are addicted to something that ruins us.❞ Just some powerful quotes that I found and compiled them into a book. Highest rank; #1 in Poetry (straight #1 from March 16, 2016 - April 18, 2016)

A collection of poe- eerr....musings if you will.

"I pray for the hungry" I said to myself as I thought about the thousands of hungry youths in Lagos at this present time of corona pandemic crises. Inspired by the on-going corona virus crises!

ELLAH SONNETS 2.0 is a compilation of 10 Unique Shakespearean Sonnets by Nigerian Storyteller, Joe Ellah.. written with precise rhyme and meter. 🌹 The project explores a variety of vivid and highly imaginative subject matters.. told from a "Black Boy" perspective. Each poem is a journey of 14 lines 3 Quatrains and 1 Couplet Each line has 10 syllables. 🌹 ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme And a variety of literary techniques with Imagery and Multi-Syllabic rhymes being the most prominent. My name is Joe 'Storytellah' Ellah Enjoy a piece of my imagination! 🌹🇳🇬 WATTPAD RANKINGS 🏅 as at August 16, 2020 🥇ODE 🥇SPOKEN WORD 🥇QUATRAIN 🥇WATTPADNG 🥈MEMOIR 🥈IMAGERY 5 in SONNETS 16 in LAGOS ********************************************** This Poetry Project "ELLAH SONNETS 2.0" is a sequel of "ELLAH SONNETS 1.0".. Kindly check it out if you haven't done so already. They are sick! Thanks 🌹💕🇳🇬