RECOLLECTION – Hader Otaki (Day 17 of KSR 31 Days of Poetry)

The distance between us is an arm length; free of potholes and bumps.
Thoughts of you excite me like home
Tickling my soles, hastening to you

The blind dreams all day of world he cannot see
But braille is another form of vision.
I close my eyes and your thighs ripen under my touch.
So, I take bites of the harvest you offer
Till I become sated with your course.

Today, the birds are chirping to the beat of my heart

While

I prowl the alley of my mind and find you seeking for me,
Flaming for me.

“Otusha, what are you doing here,
I thought I got rid of you in my last collection?”

But recollection of you is an unending series
A theatre yearning for a crowd
Luring me deeper into the echo of its chambers

Hader Otaki is a writer and the author of the poetry collection GIVE ME A WORD. He is from Nasarawa state but was born and raised in Lagos. A lover of art and stage poetry, his work has been featured on BBC Media Action, Orange Poetry, Amada Khalago (An Alago magazine) and some online platforms. He writes from Abuja and currently working on his second book.