Monday 25 January 2016

Love Wants


To gasp for air at his touch.
To have a blood rush from his gaze.
To feel a zoo in the pit of my belly from his smile.
To melt away from his kiss.
To feel tingles at his mention of my name.
To shiver all over when he holds me.
Is all I want.

Friday 22 January 2016

Listen.

Eye power; -3.50;

Hearing ability; High Definition.
The mumblings of your little minds
Infuriate me.
Your pubescent whispers
Send me to the tipsy edge,
Threatening to throw me over.

Wednesday 13 January 2016

Curtains and Alleys


Let the curtains rent to the floor
And expose the secrets of your being
Perhaps it will tell them the truth
Of your oddity 
Of all the silliness that really mocks you
And drives you to immense insanity.
And perhaps also charms you in the world's eyes
But you will not let you be one of them
Even when you have refused to be some other, truly
Let the curtain rent to the floor
And crash into everything that makes it. 

Let the light of your sick soul illuminate me
And teach me a language outside 'proper' 
Educate me in the ways of the mad
That is if you're interesting in how mad I can be
I want to be born again in your 'dark' ways 
Insane to the point that terrifies insanity
Insane in the way no books have described
Like the 'hurricanes' of 'Twilight' and 'The original Sin'.
Reconstruct my mind.
Like the stories of movies retold, untold and told again.
Make my mind a maze of dark alleys, where no light dare shine.

Nkem Oyaghire and Nnanna Ikpo.




Monday 11 January 2016

I Hate You

The very thought of you

Revolts me.
To think you were the best thing
Saddens me.
Never again to have you.
Never again to hold you.
Never again to hear you 
Say I love you.
Never again to kiss you.