VERB(S) BY UNDILUTED POET

VERB(S)
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Verbs are girls
Learning how to inscribe their names
On the walls of dark rooms
How to run from memories
That burn the stars into ashes in their eyes
Leaving them between voices
That breaks the silence of lifeless places
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Verbs are mothers
Screaming into coldness
And stretching into the throat of words
Like the unspoken word in the mouth of a girl
Somewhere in Benue, Taraba and Borno
Like the stillness in the heart of cities
Whose walls are breaking into bones
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Verbs are 2004 boys
Taking a stroll down the street of Buni Yadi
Where the sun melt into the broken rays
Of days and dates- walking barefooted
On the soil of sad and broken history
Days when the earth ate the moon
Leaving the sky with sterile faces
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Verbs are boys learning how not to die
With the rules against survival
Rules breaking boundaries between countries
Where freedom is freedom to be imprisoned
Within veins, flowing with water
Within tales that breaks a wayfarer into sad
songs of homecoming
Tales in the eyes of a soldier who returned home
without his shadows
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Verbs are boys bouncing back to 1967
When God watched the earth with his eyes
closed
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© Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale
Undiluted Poet
# UndilutedPoetry