Ali Atiku Poems

The world is losing sight of light.
Now kindness is madness.
Love is selfish.
Caring for others is carelessness.
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An absence in nothing is not explained, not even by scientists or philosophers. Not seeing her makes my eyes feel like a toddler denied of bedtime bottle. It etches, anticipates and longs for the presence of that absence of nothing I crave.I am not dying inside nor is it painless, it's full and yet emptiness overshadows it, it's like a hollow space. I am gone to the abyss of oblivion and lost in the thoughts of this mystery. A case to be solved. I am out here looking for her, like a vampire in the streets at night, longing to satisfy a hunger for the first kill in months. That hunger for blood is inevitable.

You can't precisely know well enough until you experience it because the essence of the first-hand experience is a presence.
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