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Oluwaseun Balogun
Student @ Redeemer’s University
Student @ Redeemer’s University
Halved
<p>They taught me to halve it all</p><p>and call the half a choice.</p><p><br/></p><p>Grades or the gym.</p><p>The clean shirt or the Saturday spent on strangers.</p><p>The engine or the good name.</p><p>I picked, and I called the picking wisdom.</p><p><br/></p><p>Nobody said and.</p><p>Such a small word to keep from a boy.</p><p><br/></p><p>Now I stand in the pressed collar I could have worn at twenty,</p><p>keys warm in a hand that could have held them sooner,</p><p>and the wanting I buried</p><p>comes up like a tooth that was never pulled.</p><p><br/></p><p>All or nothing, they said.</p><p>They left out the third thing:</p><p>all, with nothing in the way.</p><p><br/></p><p>So hear me, you who are still cutting yourself to fit the plate,</p><p>who think two dreams is greed</p><p>and four is a sin:</p><p>the table was never set for one.</p><p>Take the first-class mark and the first-class cut,</p><p>the hours given away and the key in your own ignition.</p><p><br/></p><p>Be the whole word.</p><p>Stop answering to the abbreviation.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p>
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