Joshua Nnachi

I looked with blinding eyes at a white flower wilting
Then I remembered your name dying on my lips.

These tiny droplets of salty rain remind me I have been a dry land;
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You might have no food
Money
Clothes
Houses...
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Again, these moments haunt me
A solemn smell of weedy sin
Smoking with forgiveness, and petulance.
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A deathless seedling
Sprouting from the womb of Earth:
The sun will spot you.
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Mother:
A golden ray of sunness;
In you I see seven thousand reasons to live.
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I'm a nesting bird in flight bearing dreams of tomorrow
Coursing through deafening winds with wings aright
Blinding ghoulish orbs, keen as knights, still as night
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Don't pretend; you feel the pains
That supreme bloodflow
Surging through your veins.
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1.
i'm passing through this path again
where we stopped to look each other in the eyes.
we smiled, seeing something different in them.
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The world's not always black or white
For the sky lies so wildly, so wide
And we birds fly to and fro
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Just in my little pony friendship
(Zephyr's whisper soft and chilly)
Dancing to my keyboard's tunes
(I sit at the backyard, bare-skinned)
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Walking the dog of my past,
I fear the silent path will prey me.

I wonder why I'm so terrified,
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A pair of eyes wink at each other, far apart;
Two sins willing to be committed...

Two devils are sneaking around in the garage
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Ka m na aga n'okporo ụzọ eche echiche oge gara aga (dịkwa ka mụ na nkịta m so aga) ,
Anam atụ egwu na ihe ọjọọ ga biakwute m na mberede.

Aghotakwa gị m ihe mere egwu ji a tụ m nke ukwuu,
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'ts only imaginary:
Staring at the starry sky,
All I think is you.
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Lost names of a fallen tribe
Trapped in a puddle of tears.
They trickle down the dewy horns of Earth, dressed in dirges.
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