Rewind Poem by Lato Denilson Osaigbokan

To begin with memories
i grew into your essences;
The breath code of remembering you floated into my lungs;
and there, in the sunlight of my thought
You dissolved like salt crystals on the concrete floor of anxiety.

Breath is the currency of the living
spent everyday in the fleeting paragraph of sighs on
the beach sand of gravity— knotted to the nomenclatures of childhood.

The burning imageries of your face rewind me to the passage
of childhood, your warm smiles cushioning the moment
throwing speeches in the air, the speeches of memories;
sailing like a vessel on the ocean of dreams under the canopy of raindrops.

The flowers in our hands took a different
shade to bloom beyond distance of feet and elbows;
from the clandestine songs of embrace, sending the mile-shot of forgetfulness
packing.

Somedays, we dilute the water in our eyes with laughter big enough
like the size of cargo ship bend into shape from the pulp sheet of remembering;
goosebumps of playtime ignited a firework from the lenses of our discrete eyes
as bright as floodlights hammering the earth on a snowy eve.