Itoro Ekwere
@itoroekwere601298
11 months ago
THIS ROUTE
We've travelled this route before, I said. After a long and piercing look at the deep
In those days where our hands were unbound yet tie together, our wings spread wide yet, clip at the edges.
We spoke in pieces, pieces of broken thoughts join together in hopeful glee.
We didn't have to be loud, our silent was enough loudness. For each time we spoke of our life, of our freedom, of the little things we find joy doing, we received lashes as a reward for being idle.
So we learned to commune with the bollworms in the cotton fields and dance with mealybugs at the plantations. We ply the waters but never reach the edge, for the edges, were for free men.
I said, we've travelled this route before.
In tiny canoes and heavy ladden ships.
In those days where our hands were unbound yet tie together and our wings spread wide yet, clip at the edges.
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