Stories From Young African Poet: Of Loneliness And Books, Olatunji David finds a Connection.

if you kill yourself / your mother will hold onto your name / & give it to her mother / her mother will give it to her mother / till you grow pale and become nostalgic memories //

Growing up I always had this feeling of estrangement from everyone, this deep sense of loneliness and alienation.

In a bid to cure this, I found books and songs as the way out.

Sermon On The Road To Gadara 

And when He stepped out on the land, there met Him a certain man from the city who had demons for a long time. And he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house but in the tombs. 
                                                                      -Luke 8:27 (NKJV)


one of these days / you could wake up / to a legion feasting in your head //
                it could be a wild clan / chanting your panegyrics / over & over & over again / 
                   till all the angels you know / are wing-ridden / bereft of flight / 
you're allowed to envy walruses / jumping to their death / but don't take the fall //

                        if you kill yourself / your mother will hold onto your name / & give it to her mother / her mother will give it to her mother / till you grow pale and become nostalgic memories // 

when the saviour says; / go into the swine, tell him; / we are the swine, don't send us to our demise //

                  brethren, you're allowed to be a flower / but don't be a marigold / you're allowed to converse with / the kitchen knife but only in this order; / 

             blessed be thy shimmering glory / blessed be  thy blood /
      blessed be the one thing that kept it pumping / blessed be thy      insanity / blessed be the blade that ends it all //

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Hannah Omokafe Dennis Is A 24-year-old Journalist, Voice-Over artist and UNFPA Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health Rights Advocate Living In Nigeria. She Currently Serves As A Community Manager In Konya Shamsrumi AndHas Some Of Her Written Works Published On Writer's Space Africa and audio stories on Genti media. She Enjoys Using Words And Her Voice To Tell Stories. She Tweets @Omokafe_forite.

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