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Student @ Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi
Bauchi, Nigeria
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Between Will and Won't
<p>To think…</p><p>is a burden.</p><p>My mind—</p><p>my enemy.</p><p>It hates me.</p><p>What is my offense?</p><p>Why won’t it heed my wishes?</p><p><br/></p><p>Thoughts scatter.</p><p>Heavy.</p><p>Incoherent.</p><p>When they wander…</p><p>twilight swallows the light.</p><p>No way out.</p><p>I am drowning…</p><p><br/></p><p>Until I am not.</p><p>They retreat.</p><p>I sigh.</p><p>Relief.</p><p><br/></p><p>Now—</p><p>let us move forward.</p><p>Let us act.</p><p>They are still.</p><p>Come forth…</p><p>They are still.</p><p>Attacks from beyond…</p><p>silent as echoes of the dead.</p><p>They do not care for me.</p><p><br/></p><p>The fiercest assaults come from within the battlements.</p><p>Internal siege.</p><p>Fortresses to capture…</p><p>yet my banners barely rise outside the castle.</p><p><br/></p><p>I want.</p><p>I know.</p><p>I do.</p><p>Yet I do not.</p><p>Yet I cannot.</p><p>Yet I will not.</p><p><br/></p><p>Fight for me.</p><p>Do not fight me.</p><p>I am besieged.</p><p>I am still.</p><p>Let me stand,</p><p>even as I falter.</p>
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