The World Is Too Much With Us

The Social Media Doctors say boredom is a

garden of unholy ghosts & the path to journey

 

Into the Suicide Island. Yet, one extrovert soaks

boredom with a gourd of snipers.

 

Nurses say depression does not have a home

in Lagos – the nucleus of struggles –

 

But some bullets pass through the head, the say way

firework flies to the sky. Everybody

 

Is a judge – pastor, imam, sane and mad –

trading between life and death

 

& countless causalities. Like gushing water sourcing for

its root, Today

searches for name until she finds one written on the forehead

of Akeem’s graveyard – Depression Day

 

Today is

come-and-think-of-a-rope-and-hang-your-throat.

 

Akeem once told me: life is made up of two-side of a coin:

good and bad, happy and sad, life and death.

 

I know we lay our bed to filter memories. With itching memories,

here I am, a baptist – seeking a new sea of divine.

 

Nureni Ibrahim

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *