Everything lit!
Everything lit!
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: dusk of red roses, star lights & pink fluorescents you blaze this longing to bury my chaos in your chest, this longing to run to the sea in your voice & listen to water tell tall…
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Conversations About Grief & Survival The night looks like the many things I lost before they died. The birds are not singing, they are silent like the deadness whispering into the ear of my window. I…
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 28 (Finale) Homecoming the way home is always full of the tears of memories & the road won’t give answers to the questions of sunsets, of trees, of places. & my heart is a…
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 27 In a heartbeat the clouds would burst into raindrops. the clink of bodies would dilute a room’s voice. & a seabird would sing to the sea & leave a homestead to itself. my…
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 26 A Moonlight Song moonlight is a song filled with mirrors & you’re the only lyrics to embrace to survive times my reflection is a mirage. in my sojourn with the night, there is…
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 25 Love, Music & Goosebumps your body is yours until you place a lover’s name on your tongue- Hauwa Shafi Nuhu or somewhere between your breast where the night slips the world into an…
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 25 Love, Music & Goosebumps your body is yours until you place a lover’s name on your tongue- Hauwa Shafi Nuhu or somewhere between your breast where the night slips the world into an…
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 24 Chemistry -after reading warsan shire you wear your charisma like an oleku dress scaling your body through fumes & smoke & I cannot help but make nest of the vapour from your charms…
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 23 A Love Song the moon would attract for itself bodies drawn to the twinkling of night stars. it’s the rule of love to live in stories that keep your dreams awake with a…
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 22 Others ways of saying I love you Anike//what I’m trying to say is//when I lurk at the other end of the phone for a drop of your voice//it’s because the cities in my…
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 21 Halleluiah that there’s always a soft poem to wear your body on days you look in the mirror & do not like what you see. & sometimes I’m empty like I’m full, because…
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 20 Starry Night here, my heart reeked of remembrance. lost in a forest of memories that do not listen to the echoes of light & joy, & I do not know the road to…