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Student @ Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi
Bauchi, Nigeria
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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>
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