Silent Walk Off
I resolved to never write
dark poems. I know how bloody,
&
broken my pen could go.
Like a crushed dog, lying on the
highway, gasping.
That was what I told her
at the faculty. & I won't.
I never saw you , but
I sense I plucked you from a tree
I don't even know the title, when I
had
first poured down a whole of
me
like a fall of rain to your dried
soil.
Not just soaked me,
but I could see several reasons why
a boy needs his mother, than a
Pride of Barbados. He is a glass,
a vein, a definition that can be
defined
as anything.
I remember I said it. But I needed
why?
you cuddled your wings, left me at
the peak
where feared.
I don't want to fall,
But even the needed mother is
blurry & faint.
Daniel Akinyemi Oluwatoyese
Daniel Akinyemi Oluwatoyese is a young
poet, fiction writer, artist and a public speaker from Nigeria. As a writer, he strives to evoke emotions and
through conversations through his work.