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Elizabeth Oyibo Mar 2018
I
We climb mountains in silence
And cross oceans in solitude,
Yet we never begin to consider as to why it must be..
Why must we go on in agony
And feel so much angst,
When someone or something shows us that it could be different,
Why can we not let it be different?
Elizabeth Oyibo Mar 2018
The darkest hours of the night,
is where the devil inside of me
comes out to play,
so I suppose
there are really no words to describe or say,
what it means to me,
that you turned darkness into light..
how you turned my devil into an angel, even if it was only for a night.
Elizabeth Oyibo Mar 2018
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I wonder,
is it the flowers we plant,
or the ones we pick that define us?
Elizabeth Oyibo Mar 2018
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I wonder...
if God is love,
then how can love exist?
Elizabeth Oyibo Mar 2018
you sip upon your sadness,
like its the sweetest thing in the world,

you create mixed drinks of anguish and solitude,
believing that with each sip you are escaping reality,
when in reality,
you are sinking deeper into your own despair.
darling you are not drunk, you are drowning
  Feb 2018 Elizabeth Oyibo
Skaidrum
The black sun coiled around you by morning,
Gingerly tending your wounded mind
You basked in the tall shadow of two lovers;
Waltzing along the line of indecisive love

Seven has always been your favorite number,
As we embarked to raise the tiger-eyed moon
That desolate soul wrapped in your inked bones
Couldn't silence the riptide that conquered like our kiss.

You were an addiction that took five months to sober,
Feathering every "I love you" with a pitiful look to me
I guess we just headed off to war in different directions
We were spilling blood in agony for each other.

There are regrets surfacing in your heart
I would know,
It's in my palm, right?

"
I am unwelcome and detatched, it seems.*"
--                                                                                   Am I wrong, Lycan?
  Feb 2018 Elizabeth Oyibo
Skaidrum
iv.

Tell me where to sell
my soul, and I will meet you
there; ode to myself.
Of the haiku series
iv. odes & suicides

© Copywrite Skaidrum
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