Score |
168
Momma's Boy @ Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi
Bauchi, Nigeria
3492
5431
252
222
The Upended Box
<p>An upended box</p><p>It lies there... </p><p>How could a single box weigh so much </p><p>It carries burdens of old</p><p>Bauchi... Memories...</p><p>Of the happy girl that I was</p><p>Of the broken girl that I became</p><p>The nightmares followed</p><p>At least the eyes no longer traced my path</p><p>Each step is studied, examined, judged</p><p><br/></p><p>To be seen is to be reminded of my stain</p><p>Yet this box, as it lays there </p><p>It is the flag that heralds new beginnings </p><p>It testifies the traversal from suffocation to salvation</p><p>It is all of the vastness of the city of Bauchi compressed into portable box</p><p><br/></p><p>Here the air is fresher</p><p>The crowds are denser and the looks linger</p><p>The eyes are merely touches of perversion</p><p>Here there is no disdain</p><p>There is no sympathy </p><p>There is no pity</p><p><br/></p><p>This is Kano</p><p>This is not Bauchi</p><p>Here I am no one</p><p>There I was a victim</p><p>Here I am merely a beautiful girl to be admired</p><p>There I was a stained girl to be pitied</p><p>Here I was a nice curvaceous figure and a pretty face</p><p>The eyes are slimy and putrid</p><p>But I can tolerate a little eye fucking </p><p>At least when the alternative was eyes pounding down with disgust, pity and sympathetic condolence</p><p><br/></p><p>All of it now is condensed into the upended box</p><p>Well not everything can be spacialy contained</p><p>So the rest I set ablaze</p><p>The embers burnt bright</p><p>But the pain burnt fiercer</p><p>The memories chased me.</p><p>I have to live with them.</p><p>His face,</p><p>His grip</p><p>His putrid breath</p><p>The painful scream of my dying innocence</p><p><br/></p><p>But at least Kano does not know who I am</p><p>Kano does not know of my stain</p><p>Kano does not know of the weight of the upended box</p>
193
Other insights from Ibn Abdullah 🦁
Referral Earning
Points-to-Coupons
Insights for you.
All that I gave
Oh, hey there!It's me... again...You know, There's so much I want to saySo much I want ...
226 views
32 upvotes
34 comments
That’s Everything
Look at me!I used to be a foot. Now I’m a fist. A clenched thing pushed into a satin b...
232 views
25 upvotes
25 comments
70
70Seventy is one of those numbers that seems to carry weight.Not because there's anythi...
86 views
26 upvotes
27 comments
Her Husband
Day one
It started out like any other day. Today for some reason, felt different. I k...
472 views
19 upvotes
19 comments
Comments