A CLOSED EYES IS A SYNONYM TO A BAKED SILENCE
I started crying and bleeding tears in my poem since
when I lately realized in a chaotic silence that
anything that belongs to me begins to leave me.
My voice is one of them. & any pen that always sings lullaby
with me begins to be silent like a corpse inside a metal coffin.
again with me, my happiness too. & every time I marvelled about
Now, I close my eyes tightly to see how silence
would but grow a canopy of leafed trees that will shade
my flowing tears. The moment I open my closed-eyes again
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when I lately realized in a chaotic silence that
anything that belongs to me begins to leave me.
My voice is one of them. & any pen that always sings lullaby
with me begins to be silent like a corpse inside a metal coffin.
My teacher's pen too.
Anything that had even once lived with me is no more breathing
again with me, my happiness too. & every time I marvelled about
these pitiful plights, the sun melts the sleeping neurons within my brain.
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would but grow a canopy of leafed trees that will shade
my flowing tears. The moment I open my closed-eyes again
would be but a day that I'd give birth to a new soul-soothing rhymes.
© Yahuza Usman
ABOUT YAHUZA USMAN
Yahuza Usman, a certified Wikimedian, is a Nigerian poet, short-story writer, book reviewer, voracious reader, essayist and a member of the Hill-Top Creatives Art Foundation from Al-Mishkat Academy, Jalingo, Taraba State.
He coauthored about 7 International anthologies. He has his works published by Al-Mir'aatuh Magazine, World Voices Magazine and elsewhere . He's the prose 2nd runner-up of WVM Online Contest, May edition. He was shortlisted among the 2022 Iconic Writers of India by Sparkling Cornexpress Media, India. Yahuza is also a Hafiz, typist, a graphic designer and a networker.
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