Here Is What I meant When I Tell You I'm A Poet

"I make the world merry go round

That you may realize the beauty of rainbows."

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Born with the blood of all tribes

I'm black & white. I'm queer & straight —

An intellectual croesus of words

I create romantic imaginaries —

You may say it's a world for paupers

I write about pain & aches. Tears & cries —

I feel the hurt of the broken & rejoice with the joyous

I make the world merry go round

That you may realize the beauty of rainbows.

I'm a preacher for gloomy faces to wear their smiles

That they'll shine brighter than the clusters of stars

I create gentle balm of words for depressed hearts

Poetic reminder for semicolons — 

that they were never alone

I craft grottoes with the chants of blue lights

So the dead may journey through the land of shadows. 

My words springs from a place that has no boundary 

Every art & nature talks to me

I make realities painless with my paint of ironies

Weaving words for humanity is my hobby

So I'll flaunt it like a painter does to colour 

I must write —

It fills my soul

& since words cannot die

In my words I choose to breath life

That I may live forever.

© Ayomide Lawal

Ayomide Lawal is a Nigerian writer, poet and a linguist to be. 

She's a poet for Arkorewrites, and some of her works has been published in Elegance Dreamers Anthology. 

You can connect with her on WhatsApp 08104680447.

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