Poet-Today | Maryam Gatawa | The Arts-Muse Fair
CHANGE
See
My
back is constant
with
ravages of
time
Look
at
my shoulders
where
the dust of
yesteryears
have settled
See
I
am a series of phases
allergic
to boring sameness
Look
at my feet
limping
towards
freshness
giving
no mind to originality
Listen
I
am resilience
I
am change
I STOP
(After
Paterson)
I
limp towards
The
headlights
On
paved road
With
dry shrubs
By
one side
And
blooming roses
By
another
The
road becomes-
Two
becomes four
So
I run
Like
hare
But
four becomes-
Eight
becomes sixteen
Like
in a mirror dimension
So
I stop
And
the sun
Fell
on my palm
The
imagined mirror shatters
And
the road becomes
One
sincerely,
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Maryam Gatawa, pen name Meegat, is a young Poet and writer who live in Kano,
Nigeria. She is a graduate of Economics from Bayero University, Kano in
Nigeria. She is a human activist with special concern in making the lives of
orphans tear-free. Writing and reading are what give her great joy as a
passionate lover of arts. Her hobbies include travelling, chatting and
brainstorming. Some of her literary works have been published in the African Writer Magazine, PIN Quarterly
Magazine, Tuck Magazine and in local papers. She tweets @ meegat12.
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