#commons
Allergens
Memories
Strong spices
Leave your scars
I'll send them below
Precious new memories will replace
Your unwelcome pain
Napkins and longboards
electronic haze
I don't watch Disney
I wish I
didn't know my parents
But I take this for granted again
Outbreaks
Gluten
Shedding
Flannels before they were Cool
painting my room
two shades of black
Shakira
I'll share my life
If you will pretend I'm awake enough
To absorb yours
Can we become closer?
May 5, 2014
May 5, 2014 at 3:09 AM UTC
II. Resurrection of Hunger
But hunger rose, not greed, but rightful ache
A fire recalled from ash at break of law;
The sealed stone cracked for conscience’ stubborn sake,
And silence learned to testify what it saw.
The river practiced mercy, slow and wide,
Its banks unbribed, its crossings firm with song;
The poor walked through with dawn upon their side,
And footprints argued loudly against wrong.
No calf survived the weather of clear eyes;
Its gold unlearned the grammar of command.
What fed on lies grew thin beneath the skies,
And breath returned to everyone’s hand.
Thus need stood up where want had staged a throne,
And named the earth a commons, not a bone.
© Lanre Adebayo
May 6
May 6, 2026 at 6:26 PM UTC