Journey Man Poem by Oluwatosin Richard Shiba Aribo

Journey Man



They keep telling me,
I'm gifted, but that's beside the point
My outbursts are my formula,
To keep despair in abeyance
That's how
I arrived at this joint
I'm the cowboy,
The wayfarer'
Hitch hiking, gassing away from
Last night's witches scream

And I have been terrible'
My love has been difficult
So terrible
So incomprehensible
So wayward, like a master key
So twisted
I have been dark from my skin
Even up into my soul!

My time is spent dreaming
Worst of all'
I have been consumed by everything
Eaten up by nothing!
There's trouble on my mind
I rant, I pant, I try,
Still no one understands me

I hit the Church,
Begging God for a way out
for a journey man
Who has fallen to the floor!

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