Poet-Today ~ Nkemjika Christian ~ The Arts-Muse Fair

                                             This

                                           weather

                                       is an assassin.

                                          a wild teen

                                     who has caged the

                                     frail old air and now

                                 bullies me into taking my

                          bathtub to be my dearly not beloved

                      nanny. This weather is an assassin. It is a

                mountain that urges me to climb her. To climb her.

        To climb her. But does not equip me with the climbing tools.

 This weather is an assassin. This weather is an assassin. This weather...

Dele

The stretch marks from

My scars

Are now what you treasure

But I still can't look

At them squarely. So,

Let me see them through

Your eyes

And learn to see me

As us.

Bamidele

                    You have, to me,

               The powerful voice of my

                          Adele.

                It’s still the rainy season

                 Come, let’s let our

                       Inner rains

                            Fall

                     On each other...

                      #Bamidele

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Nkemjika Christian is the author of Beyond Dialogismos and Adeyemi Chronicles; she holds a bachelor degree in English, UNN and a Masters in Tourism Development, UI. A Fellow of the Ebedi International Writers' Residency, Iseyin, she has read her works at several literary events across Nigeria, and also attended several literary festivals including the Garden City Literary Festival and Festival Poetry Calabar. She lives in Lagos.