Umar Ibrahim Yunusa
@umaribrahimyunusa
1 year ago

The Damned

Oh how I wish I was a toddler
Learning a life from zeroes of mistakes
A step at time then another

What they say about the creaking bow
That a cunning arrow anticipate
Oh sprouted from the silence of peep

An ailing calf I call myself
Believing a tide on the ebb
Deceitful I say in my death bed

Shoo don't smell my shit
Burning as the sins of Rome
My lifeless self will be ashore

Oh what they say is fountain of youth
I march upon eyes in me closed
You reckoned; I will be damned

©Umar IY
11th June 23
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