TWO POEMS

By Wisdom Adediji

                        Photo Credit: Imgflip

DON'T BE AFRAID OF DYING

Don't be afraid of dying.

      life is a brook        

                               of sudden memories,

 only our dreams made us relics of fear.  

     remember; 

        if darkness shred your dreams 

into particles of grieves,

it is a way 

             of knowing              

                              death is at the threshold.          but still. 

don't be afraid

      what is life if not a metaphor for death.

for death is not the end,             its just a beginning,   

              and the beginning is the end of all.

                                                                                  

AT THE MENTION OF HOME

At the mention of home,

fear begins to  

    find shelter in my body,   & my memories

                                      search for a day 

          without innocent reds eroding our land.

but it kept on  searching,

                  searching, 

             searching…

until my gallery unravelled an epistle of grief.

                                                                                 

Wisdom Adediji is a Nigerian genre bending writer. He's currently studying geography at the university of Ibadan, and writes from there. meet him on Instagram and Facebook @ wisdom adediji.