Learning To Love Myself Poem by Funkekeme Akposeye

I was born underground
With a frown
I think it was before my mother even wore
a wedding gown
Even in the womb i almost drowned
No family member was even around
Only two came to surround
Only loneliness
And emptiness
I didn ' t cry
I couldn ' t cry
Whatever life brought i turned a blind eye
My tear ducts had already gone dry
I started my era
Not believing in miracles like the biblical
Sarah
With a hundred Naira
I found healing like an Aloe Vera
And a burning desire for life
Like a raging wild fire
Locked in this life grid
Like a politician afflicted with greed
I always have to come back
Like the color black
And this is a fact
Even when my backs against the wall
I always pick up like a telephone call
I always answer like natures call
Sometimes at the edge of insanity but i
promise my self never to fall
Sometimes even better than the old me
Ask the friends that used to know me
They owe me
Now they fear me
How i write to find peace
They say i write too much like pieces
Maybe they are right
Or maybe they just don ' t smell life like
feces
I have been through it all
And i am still standing tall
I am clearing out the top shelf
And I am eventually learning to love my
self.