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Oluwaseun Balogun
Creator name | Noir
Student @ Redeemer’s University
Ibadan, Nigeria
Writer. Observer. I craft stories that dwell in the unseen, the unanswered, and the deeply felt, writing that invites readers to experience every emotion with me.
Member since Oct 24, 2025
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- First Place, Redeemer’s University Department of Law Public Speaking Competition (2025)
- Second Place, Redeemer’s University Inter-Faculty Debate (2025)
- Best Position Paper, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Redeemer’s University International Model United Nations (RUIMUN) (2025)
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Posted on March 26, 2026, 11:09 p.m.
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
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Take me back to the old days, when all I knewwas the beaming light of the moonand the music of mi...
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Posted on March 25, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
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We are not hewn from mahogany or oak,No kiln-dried timber for the world to burn.We are the steady...
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Posted on March 21, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
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Maybe I was never meant to be choosen, only noticed.A glitch in the landscape that caught your e...
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Posted on March 18, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
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This life no balance.I heard it growing up,But never felt itUntil I walked my own road.Life hands...
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Posted on March 16, 2026, 4:35 a.m.
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I was played.A script of “trust” and “letting in,”a slow-burn lie beneath the skin.I opened the d...
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Posted on Feb. 22, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
In History and Culture
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That soft, sorting tone, the high pitch and low chords,it runs. The best sound I have ever heard,...
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Posted on Feb. 22, 2026, 4:19 a.m.
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I thought I had the world.Not part of it, all of it.But when it slipped through my handsI realize...
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Posted on Feb. 22, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
In People and Society
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For a long time, I feared the inquiry.I was scolded, not because my questions were wrong, but bec...
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Posted on Feb. 12, 2026, 3:10 a.m.
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Adulthood is a performance we put on for an audience that is also pretending.We’ve convinced ours...
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Posted on Feb. 9, 2026, 12:05 p.m.
In Mental Health
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When someone says they are tired of life, that is not a joke setup. That is a cry for help. Niger...
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Posted on Jan. 29, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
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Let me just fit in.The attempt, the push,Just to be in circles I don’t complete.Just to be part.J...
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Posted on Jan. 20, 2026, 3:42 p.m.
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The Waiting ListWhen silence takes overand the voices creep in,I learn this too was me,the part t...
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Posted on Dec. 12, 2025, 1:49 p.m.
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Not today.Not tomorrow.I won't let you have my head.Trembling in fear, but chin held high.I might...
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You are holding me right now,even if your hands are empty.The more you try to keep me,the faster I disappear.I can be wasted, stolen, or given,yet no one has ever seen me.The poor and the rich have...
I am born where nothing touches,yet I touch all that exists.I have no body, yet I can break kings.No voice, yet I am heard in every language.I grow stronger the more I am ignored,but I die the mome...
