Adaobi Chiemelu Poems

BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP


Blessed
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hello,
a friend said to face your fears
but what if you've lost your face
what if all you have left are a few strands of hair sticking out your guts
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Brush and paint your
Rooms of ideas and
Open door opportunities like
Windows of love and happiness
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Ten Things I Hate About You


1. I hate that you make plans with me, but you only make them to break them.
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I understood the scarf tied around your head when I watched you tug at it. The scantily threaded scarf you could hardly trade almost giving way yet you were barely worn out from all that wearing.

I understood because I could see my reflection on the face of your scarf. Myself all worn and torn from exhaustion more than from age. Exhausted from your preferential treatment of scorn and judgement.
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Those that we bottled up and labeled 'bestie'
Back in time
Like the beasts of burden
Fell for us but we fell too
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The blood, it cakes under the sun
The blood on the soil
When you first hear of blood
Which is it you think of
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My opinion is in a messy box
It used to follow a sect of duck-trines in that same box
Duck-trines groomed in the form of a spider
It was caught in the spider's web which wilt wider
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HIM

He's sitting there like an open book, waiting for me to read him
A part of him poking out, waiting for me to search him
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Early to bed

I'm seeking sleep eagerly
Cause I want to have my color when I wake up in the morning
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