Duplex (Threshold)
Sink your grieves here, this poem is a threshold to light.
You are not a moth disoriented by flames.
Yes you were the moth, today, become the flames.
Trust me, death is just trendy, light strikes faster.
Light your sorrows, they’ll burn faster & trend with wind
Your body is more water than sand.
Thresh your body from this mud, be a lotus.
This world is a bacterium; sometimes it causes disease.
Bacteria destroy disease-causing cells, this world is a bacterium.
Listen, it is not a sin to be wounded, not healing is the shackles.
Give healing a soprano voice towards your wounds.
Darkness, as it ages, feels thirsty and sips light.
Light, even if it’s a flame, masks darkness with age.
Sink your grieves here, this poem is a threshold to light.
Abdulbasit Oluwanishola, SWAN V, is a young Nigerian poet who writes from Ilorin, Kwara State. He’s studying Agriculture in Usmanu Dafodiyo University Sokoto. He is the winner of the PCU Eid Celebration on-the-spot poetry contest 2023. He is shortlisted in the Dawn Project Writing Contest 2023. His works are up/forthcoming on A Long House, Kalahari Review, Visual Verse, Ninshãr Arts, World Voices Magazine, Full House Literary, Beyond the Veil Press, and elsewhere. He tweets @OO1810107.
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