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Momma's Boy @ Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi
Bauchi, Nigeria
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Lucid Limbo
<p>The mirror showed me a smile.</p><p>I am unconvinced.</p><p>Something was amiss.</p><p>I step out... Unsure...</p><p>Mask with curved lips I was uncertain could be called a smile</p><p>What is this feeling?...</p><p>The winds... They speak...</p><p>Is it to me they whisper?...</p><p>Or am I merely a buffer, an insufferable wall between them and their intended recipients?</p><p>The ants are working... </p><p>A long slithering column </p><p>Lengthy and precise with order and duty</p><p>They waddle beneath shadows weightier than their frames...</p><p>I watch them... I step on them... They scatter... I smile...I cry...Why?</p><p><br/></p><p>Wouldn't it be funny? I ponder...As I stumble upon a well.</p><p>If I were to just take a leap... Plunge</p><p>Wouldn't that be funny?</p><p>The winds again come...</p><p>"Jump" they say... This time more vocal than a whisper...</p><p>"You know you want to"</p><p>Foolish winds... I laugh... You know I couldn't even if I wanted to...</p><p>Strangely the winds had a voice quite like mine...</p><p>Indistinguishable even. Strange coincidence...</p><p><br/></p><p>A mountain I sight.</p><p>A hill actually. A dwarf bearded with vegetation. </p><p>Climb! Climb! Climb!</p><p>The winds are persistent! </p><p>My limbs oblige and I begin to ascend...</p><p>My limbs displayed obedience only when mortality was on a stroll.</p><p><br/></p><p>I walked up the dwarf's back.</p><p>Easily surmountable. I conquered it's peak. No steps missed.</p><p>The winds were not speaking... They were furious... My clothes billowing ferociously.</p><p><br/></p><p>I see... They have lost their voice...But still I could make out their fancy.</p><p>Silly winds...</p><p>You know I won't jump no matter how much you tell me too.</p><p>I smile... </p><p><br/></p><p>The horizon smiles back with the glow of sunset...</p><p>What do I do? I ask the setting sun...</p><p>The winds wish I took a leap...</p><p>Existence wishes me to descend...</p><p>I wish to do neither...</p><p>Up or down both lacked allure... Yet I must choose one.</p><p>The quest is binary... It's either this or that... With nothing to fill the void between...</p><p>Which do I take?</p><p>The sun sets without offering me solace.</p><p><br/></p><p>I descend.</p>
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