Meet My Celebrity Crush

If you felt like what's Solar talking ‘bout here? who's he crushing on? and what's big about this crush? then you probably need to see a few of Titilope Sonuga's spoken word videos. Don't trust yourself too much- You might end up with me in this crushing affair after all.

The first time I watched Titi talk, it was like this- I followed a YouTube link posted on the Spoken Word King Olulu's wall to her TedEx Edmonton Talk- Speaking Into The Void, "I was awed" is not close to what I felt that twilight. I can't recollect how many times I actually re-streamed that video with lips agape before eventually downloading it. And how many times have I played it since then? Don’t go there please……Titi sings words.

Lemme make this quick confession. I have almost everything Titi has allowed to be on google. If she had her bed sheet, or a cool picture of her un-kept toilet, trust you'd find it somewhere on one of my devices. You know when you watch a person's video and you like it so much, and then you go for more and more and more and the likeness grows with it. That's just the description I can give now.

I fled straight to Facebook like I was escaping Boko’s Bomb, but was not impressed with just liking her page. I strolled through and noticed she hardly used it.  Then I figured Twitter would bring me way closer so again I fled.

I followed and OMG! she returned it. I felt the same feeling that woman with the issue of blood must have felt when she touched Jesus. And she didn't just follow back, she replied my Tweet too. I could almost hear her voice behind the letters of my name as she replied.

Titilope Sonuga ‏@deartitilope Jun 10

Titilope Sonuga Retweeted adigun olushola

Aw thanks! Very soon I'm sure.

Titilope Sonuga added,

adigun olushola @Solarspeaks

@deartitilope lol..Ms Titi.. Whenever you're in Nigeria I really need to meet you. I'm addicted to your poetry I must confess.

 I was completely made up to attend her poetry workshop then- Put It in a Poem, to be held here in Nigeria. I asked her for details and guess what! She boxed my private email. OMG! You know that fly fly feeling.

Titilope Sonuga ‏@deartitilope Feb 10

@Solarspeaks thank you. I sent you an email.

There have been times when I had felt like “if she only knew how much space her pictures take in my memory”. Yes those times when my tweet lies unattended on her wall and I’m like “No Titi is not proud”.

There’ve been times too when I’d asked nobody in particular “why on earth didn't she wait for me to be born before she came”. Lol

I can hardly stop zooming in and out of that lady's pictures. 

You can imagine how I first felt when I heard she got married sometimes in July. Not jealous tho. I just wanted to be sure I’d like the guy so I went after him. I'm beginning to think I can trust him well. At least he hasn’t been a bugging type from where I’m watching.

Sometimes in July this year, Titi was at Goethe institute as a featured guest artist at Freedom Spoke Words organized by AJ House of Poetry, only God knows how the devil used traffic against me. I sincerely dropped a few tears. Nothing could have been more painful in that moment. I consoled myself with “God knows why I couldn’t make it”

The same God knows why I couldn't make it to Becoming on the 6th of this month..Like seriously. But I spent the following day reading tweets from those who attended. I don't need anyone to tell me I missed too much. I learned Titi sang a song. OMG! 

We've been talking sha(as in type-talking lol)... I'll bring you guys pictures of the both of us in her living room sometime soon. I said living room ooo…Trust me. 

You know it’s just natural to so like someone you ordinarily might not like (I ordinarily like Titi tho) just because she/he does what you are very passionate about amazingly well.

But seriously, she hasn't paid me to do this for her; it’s just my feeling. 

Visit Her website .

STATE OF HEART POEM

Read my short #stateofheart poem for Titi before 

My Ten Favorite of her public pictures.

Ms. Titi

As the earthen awaits the loom of a bright new dawn

and the stars expect the setting of the sun

Like the lost children

Watching the dark clouds for at least a half of their yellow sun

and a nursing mum, the ease of another morn.

Like a boy waiting to see a sea-crab blink 

And an aged crouched to watch a sea-bird sink

So do I!

So do I long for your fingers locked in mine

As we talk away from the noise of time

Passing fair bottles, and sharing chuckles

-and love,

talking how you dug yourself out of that rubble.

I long for those light in your eyeballs

As you show me your accolades splashed on the wall

peel open the cover of your golden book

all for me to look.

I long for the direct feel of the real beat and melody

That separates your poetry

I am as patient as a believer

waiting for the second coming of Christ

or as a pregnant mother soon to deliver

So even if eternity puts us straight apart

someday I know, we’d cross our paths

I cross my heart.

NB: Only Titi is allowed to blush.

SEVEN FAVORITES

Now let’s see my Seven Favorites of Titi’s public pictures.

I love the thin purple material here

 

The light blush on her cheek

My first D.P on Whats App. You need to see messages- “who’s she Solar”. “Is she the lucky babe?” I could only lol and sincerely wish.

Looks like I can see through her body to the depth of her heart.

 To think Titi acts so beautifully too.

          I love the hairdo like” I can die” 

 

See beauty!

 

Captured from Titi's TedEX Spoken Word- Speaking Into The Void 

You must be crushing on her by now.