untitled. unfinished? I

“My pastor’s wife believes I am possessed by demons” he stammers, “That gossipy bitch wouldn’t say it to my face”

Twenty-Something

Let us end this… while you are still ahead.

mud

I. a

Grey fog covers the city like a blanket of cobwebs as our eyes smart from the merciless harmattan breeze. Our wings are spread in unnerving calm and our mind floats above the rancour of the mundane. We are on the journey, again, to where we live, in the noise of ourself; in the despair that is our recess; in the nullity of life’s smelling secret.

II

Death has broken Ákòbí’s bed. She has left a gulf in the place where she laid, with the false promise of wonder bread in the darkness between her legs. She has blown out the candle of affection and has cast a blistering shadow on the contract of eternal bond sworn before the Almighty. There is a war brewing, and the casualties are innocent. Beady-eyed and ignorant, they have been thrust into a field of barbed utterances, under the deluge of regretful actions.

Our wings flutter desperately, clinging to a sliver of hope that the ethereal beams, bursting above these hovering clouds, will soon break through and expose this death for what she is.

Defeated.

III

Ìkéji has towering dreams, they inhabit realms the strongest of minds hesitate to reach. They are untethered, however, rootless and soon lost like a runaway kite.

We worry for ìkéji; for the manic riot unraveling between their ears; for the exploding desires reverberating in their chest; for the ashes of evanescent fires lingering on their (ever) dancing tongue.

I. b

Our wings embrace the familiar; the comforting thermal that pull us to the piece of reprobate, where we bloom under Heaven’s distaste.

There is no more fight left in us; no effervescence; no flicker of longing; no will.

There is only the beckon of sin and the release we have found in the shadow of the rainbow.

The rainbow we have stopped to loathe?

A place of innocence

He found in the darkness of his house what he had, in a time of privilege, searched for across four continents: the nothingness in everything.

23; A Conversation

On a seemingly otherwise ordinary day; 13 September 2015, a not-so-much-by-chance encounter occurs between Beautiful Boy and 23. 23 has offered therapeutic services to BB.   23: You don’t seem particularly excited to meet me.   BB: Don’t I? Sorry, I’m hardly excited about anything …

Child Of Whispering Sorrows

Let me tell you about him; the child of whispering sorrows

Beard

Now, Hope sits banal in its tattered seams, and Life, for all its promise, is never as it seems

Come And Be Going

Sometimes, the crack in the wall is not a signal of an imminent fall; the peeking of the sun is not a prelude of a fiery dawn… It is just what it is.

Iris

Let me tell you something, something about grief: it can wrap you like a mother, it can warm you like the sun…

thR grind

Let me tell you something; something about grief…