November 2020 – Amaka Akinteye

Void Shift

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You envisioned creating Your clone Designed from dust and water Carved to mimic Your shadows Yet no life no steam, just vacuum Through Your words came oxygen The molecules of Your words Flowed into this lifeless statue Cells formed, veins filled, arteries pumping Tendons, muscles, nerves clinging to bones All systems connected at full capacity […]

Just A Number

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When time ticks, time soars When days tick years roll When years arrive it’s a birthday Could it define your look? Could it represent knowledge grade? Could it determine your empire? Dwelling in the history of your past Searching for treasures of past years Reviewing the catalog of your history Questioning your contribution to existence […]

Friendship or Friendwreck

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Could it be one that drains value? Slyish cordiality gainfully zapping love Stepping in and out of allies shadows Replacing appearances with the disappearance Appearing in boom yet missing in drought Cajoling words out just to feed itchy ears Projecting false interest in matters arising Pretending to be in the oblivion of pretense Preparing agenda […]

Flash point

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Running from left to right Staring into the ceiling Counting invisible sheep Is it the quest to shine and outshine? Is it the race to defeat or to lift? The desire to show off and put off The stress to look good, not do good The protest of boasters not boosters The plan to get […]

I’m sorry

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I said it, the three power phrase I finally spat it out of my rusty guts For the days I shut you down in defense The moments I played deaf to observations In the scenes, I acted as your evil opponent The debates that rendered you dumb Forgetting it was your birthday, no gifts Ignoring […]

Life

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So fickle and mysterious Unapologetic and proud Decides its own adventures Embracing and lashing simultaneously Drilling holes in hearts without a plug Fascinating to only admirers Creating vacuums only it can fill Causing shifts and quakes Leaving scars like keloids Produces joy and sadness simultaneously Appearing complex yet so so simple It drains the appetite and […]

You And Me

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Sitting with jaws dropping, stunned Lying awake with flashes of regret After the worries, it’s just you and me Struggling in phases of past despair After the turmoil, it’s just you and me Listening to deafening sounds of impossibility After the noise, it’s just you and me The case that lingered against my cause After […]

The Stillborn

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The landscape of her heart is occupied with illusions and imageries Pallets of pressures make her dreams unborn, Her desires linger on a perforated surface of life Is her dream yet unborn? A rhetorical question she utters Fate has its turn Fate plays his part in the scenes The planting is done The gestation projected […]

Just Once

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Once in life we are born into the world Once in life we are toddlers Once in life we are teenagers Once in life we are adolescents Once in life we become adults Once in life we get old Once in life we fizzle out of existence

Busyness

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Is it with work, then it must bring money Busy with friends, then our relationship must be valuable Busy with the children, I must be a responsible parent Busy with my creator, I must be heeding the call to service Busy with relaxation, it is time to get rejuvenated Busy with others, I must be […]

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