“HER WORLD” BY 22 YEAR OLD DAUDA LADEJOBI- THE POEM THAT WON THE TONY TOKUNBO FERNANDEZ NATIONAL POETRY COMPETITION

 

Her world
Let me show you
Somewhere you’ve never seen
To a place you’ve never been
This is her world
Her trees aren’t green
They are yellow with sticky bits
Honey Combs in these foxes
She doesn’t feel good enough so she flaunts it
Only to be trampled on by these roads
that stop her getting to where she needs to go
She needs to grow
You can find her on corners
Behind fences
In parks or forests
Put down by hotel erections
She screams when the thunder claps
Whines when the wind goes up her knees
She gets air so she feels lije breeze
When the sun comes out she seems at ease
Until tye cold nights
She falls with the snow
Only with us does she have a home
But what do you care
She’s just your. ..
Let me show you
Somewhere you’ve never seen
To a place you’ve never been
This is her world
Her skies are not blue
All you see is black smug
Weary eyes behing a dark fog
She can’t see where she’s going
Cold shoulders breaking off
As our kitchens our heating up
As she gets empty she stops filling us
So we start digging her
To give us some more
Cause she’s just your
Let me show you
To a place you’ve never been
Deep inside her
Cause her larva burn you up
Let’s not forget her fathers a god to us
Forgoten like the titans
She’s lust to us
Her history scattered through documents and abandoned institutes
But what do you care
She’s just your. ..
Let me show you
Somewhere you’ve never seen
To a place you’ve never been
This is her world
the colors Green and blue all over her surface
Marks of dominace
She used to urupt
but now tears stream
Her tsunamis of lost dreams
So far from an equal when she reaches out
There’s nothing but space
No body to fit (de) the face
In her
Is a place
Untouched
And that’s when she looks her best
All naturel
Until blazes of passion
Leave her striped beyond recognition
How have we forced our world in prostitution

 

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