Poet-Today ~ Umar Yogiza Jr. ~ The Arts-Muse Fair
white
woes
my country is a one-book
library,
my life and survival, a book
without an author
chapter of peace & good life
already written.
only writers armed with the ink
of bigotry:
tribalism or religion succeed as
writers.
i am fighting to be good in a
chapter of horror.
my country is a beautiful
destination.
the journey depends on your
connection.
and, i am a dirt of past encyclopaedias,
a syntax penned by marginalized
bruises,
yearning to be beautiful in a
pit of horror,
in a country ruled by the wit of
saboteurs.
at the doors of who you know,
get what!
the hinges and keyholes are
suspended,
scenes are closed to be opened
by corruption.
religion and tribalism, the only
landscape
became the food that rots the
tongues,
and the wound that closes the
mouth.
my country is easy. it depends
on who you are.
life is a grail, coded designs,
coined by
filaments upon filaments of
interpretation.
they are the thorns that
readjusted my destiny
a sore spell, a fruit of
rootless trees
whose images are the shadow of
my body.
my country is wealthy, only for
the wealthy.
i am reworking the labour that
made me
dig the grave of the past, the
one that buried- me
picking their bones to rewire
the car
of history that brought me here,
unready.
i am an orchid learning how to
die like a man.
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Umar Yogiza Jr, lives and writes
from Abuja, Nigeria. His works have appeared in Arielchart, Spillwords,
Pikerpress, Duanepoetree, Tuck Magazine, Poets in Nigeria, African Writers,
Kalahari Reviews, ANA Reviews, Thematic journal of English poets, Anthologies,
Journals and many online platforms
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