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I THINK EVERYONE HAS A SCAR THEY NEVER REALLY SHOW

I THINK EVERYONE HAS A SCAR THEY NEVER REALLY SHOW

 

If a poem is the shortest route to tell about

grief, then an anthology is not dissimilar to a

scar.       I come 

 

from a country where one depressed soul is equal to a lever lifting another. 

I say my body lifts itself when I hold a hand, like two birds flying in one accord.

 

There is surely nothing new here. 

Maybe, a language, a sigh & sign only these scars feel.

 

How easy it could be for one's pain to flicker 

without burning.

a radiating sun drifting 

drop by drop into the cloud. 

 

My body keeps dropping letters telling me it's weak of feeling pains like sponges

drown in an ocean of tears.  I write & write 

& someone else joins in the medley of my pains. 

It's like the body having two hearts it can't safeguard.



 

 

 


Gideon Emmanuel ( he /him) is a young poet, teacher, lover of kids/nature, orphans & depressed people, from Lagos, Nigeria. His poems have appeared in Eboquills, U_Rights magazine, Arthut anthology, Boardspeck, Street Child anthology, Terror house, Agape Review, Poemify Publisher, Fiery Scribe Review & forthcoming in Brittle Papers, Ninshar Arts & elsewhere.

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