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I..........li.......lo...
Uhmmmmm
I think i...uhmmm....like love...
I'm sorry, I guess my heart doesn't feel right responding to you
Knowing you were once the reason it broke to pieces.
I thought I was immune to pain,
Cause I had lived with it and i sure do know how it feels.
The wounds it gave me for as long as I could remember left something different but sensual
Because I stopped feeling it's sting each time it got treated.
The scars it left me suddenly embraced beauty and forgot it was meant to be hidden and not seen.

But it soon changed
It found a rival
And oohhh it fought so hard to keep me
An even though I felt my sanity leaving
I was scared, none of my six senses were functioning
It became a mixed feeling
I felt as though a shadow was soon about to gain control of my existence.
At first it was scary, threatening my identity cause have lived with it for so long that being distant seemed like a threat to me
But I was wrong
I was wrong to ever let you feel comfortable with me
I was wrong to build a fantasy when you all you ever did was worsen my health
You took more from me than I gave to you
You took my sanity, my sense of feeling, my existence
So on this day when love has finally found and fixed me,
I say GOODBYE PAIN.
Most times creating a fantasy when you are experiencing pain, only suppresses the time for healing.
My Generation?
Uhmm
That's.....uhmmm....Huge!
What I expect from my generation???
Why don't we try it this way??
What foundation was my generation built on?
What moral, principles, values or doctrines were carved into the hearts of people from my generation???

Our foundation was already built, long before we existed
Clearly built by "the society" like we were always reminded, cause hell yes, we live in it.
But that was the beginning of our loss,
We met the society in existence, way before we had the guts to build our own foundation not to talk of the opportunity to challenge or even change it.
And it saddens me to say that I expect NOTHING from My Generation..
You know why?..
Because it is bleeding us out even before we existed.
It tells us today, education is the greatest gift you can ever possess
But guess who runs the market?
Soliders with maybe Secondary School certificates.
A great number of them as that.
Any traces of rebelling against the society who"protects you",  is kicked off from the devil's dinner.
And then we are enstranged from our freedom and have to start afresh!
The God damm society gave us the ******* fear we experience every ******* day!
To enstrange us from the devil's intimacy.
They say, you have to take risk to be daring enough to beat the society hands down
But guess what? We ******* don't choose the consequences that comes with the risk!
So in case you have some problem with your present social status, academic goals, crisis, whatever the ******* problem it is?
Get the **** up and **** the damaged society you exist in!!!!!.
And that's what I expect from My Generation.
Tables don't turn if you let the position of the table restrict you. Everyone knows the society has been established, change the position of your chair from the sides to the top with no other chair contesting your space with you.
I'm a year older today
And the greatest gift I received were from loved ones and distant friends
But not from my family
And yet I wonder, is today truly my Birthday?

Over the years, I would stay awake all through the night to see who would make my day special.
I found one but he wasn't family
He is a distant friend
A stalker
He never forgets what birthday's mean to me.
But I guess I don't mean much to my family.

Every Birthday, I wish for something new
A mind blowing surprise
And guess what?
He became an answer to my prayer

But my heart doesn't belong to him and so I can't reciprocate his love

And my only wish for today is LOVE.
"Hi, are you a demon?If yes, well I need you to possess me cause your beauty as overwhelmed my righteousness"
And like a demon, I got myself entangled with you.

"Damm!!! You must be a goddess cause your body is so perfect to survive the harshness of humanity"
And like a goddess, I made my body your worship center.

"You're so talented but there is something missing.... I wonder what that is?"
And as dumb as I have ever felt, I made my existence a problem that only you could solve.
Right in the middle of Lagos traffic
Sitting in the bus with my role model
Feeling the heat of the traffic
Thoughts flowing through my mind
Lines reannouncing that it needs perfection
My hands moving with the flow of my mind
I wonder
What is going through everyones' mind
Are they in a hurry?
Are they depressed?
Are they excited to see what's at the end of the their journey
Are they running from something?
Or silently praying for a Saviour or their Guardian Angel.....

Well I guess a little distraction from what's going on in my life would make my troubled soul feel less tensed
But at the end,
It's just me and my world
With no one staying longer than they deserved in it.
Life is all about you, every one has their expiry date.
  Apr 2020 Rachael Ifaturoti
Aryan Sam
Hi
Years ago
We stayed up till
3 am talking,
And today
I don’t even know
How to say hi,
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