Dear lover,
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now that the earth has opened up her bowel to have you for dinner,
I expect your haunting ,
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tell me what to do with your bones ?
Should they rise up and walk again\u00a0
Tell me, Are you afraid of the dark?
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you alternate & walk backwards searching for the light?,\u00a0
your two hands, ready to block the fist of the devil from mapping your face like you did mine?,
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Should I wear your teeth as confetti?\u00a0
Should I borrow your navel for a Belt?\u00a0
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your belt swift as lightning, always too fast, too in a hurry to leave it\u2019s position to strike
Usain Bolt, is that you?
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beg you permission please, let me use your scrotum for a bar,\u00a0
you were always beating the life out of me,\u00a0
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Excuse me,\u00a0
I hear four pipers piping on my losses,
Four children lost from your fist,\u00a0
Bruce Lee, is that you?
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
five bruises capping on my knees\u00a0
sixth eyes grazing through thick darkness,\u00a0
Seven summers mourning our daughters
Eight maids are milking from my sadness
Nine bartenders attending my drinking\u00a0
Ten paid mourners mourning on your funeral\u00a0
Eleven, my heart is rejoicing,
Twelve, I will come caroling at your funeral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ejiro Elizabeth Edward is a passionate lover of the arts. She is the convener of Benin Arts and Book Festival; A literary event that aims to promote the arts within Benin City, Nigeria. She is also the winner of several awards across the literary field. She is the editor of Malimbe Magazine; an Inflight magazine that covers local airlines within Nigeria.\u00a0She also works for Ouida Publishing Firm. She is the recipient of the Pearl Hogrefe Fellowship Award and is pursing a Master’s program at Iowa state university.\u00a0She has an infinite desire to impact lives through the Art.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear lover, Now that the earth has opened up her bowel to have you for dinner,I expect your haunting , Tell me what to do with your bones ?Should they rise up and walk again\u00a0Tell me, Are you afraid of the dark? Do you alternate & walk backwards searching for the light?,\u00a0your two hands, ready […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-1","category-poetry","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}