by Elisha Oluyemi SOILED WHITE ||Quivering alone in the murk,Letting out pain in warm drips,While making to deliberateWhether to live or wither.The throes of that distant nightMelts into the wind's grim howl.Palpitating with terror,The weak's soul drifts into mess.Faint echoes from forced struggles,Like daggers, pierce through one's core, Impairing the mind to dregs,Eroding the soul of worth.Prudently conserved maidenheadMade relinquished by some vain brute.Memories...

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by Elisha Oluyemitell it on the hills and peaks / what has made the crackers crack the night / what has caused the birds to chirp a tune / what has chiselled a smile up our facesup till four hours and two the other night / it reeked of burning / of tempests and of / darker shades of red and grey which...

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COMPLEXION OF ERRORS || Delusion —Eris' memento;A thousand crazed vipers.A man's brain —Pandora's box of bane;A hub of evil thoughtsMortal world —A grimy testing siteWhere discord runs amokMummified deities;Stained enduring teachings —Taproots of distortionTime sails on,Wars soaking up seasons,And the clock keeps on ticking._______—Written by Elisha Oluyemi(Originally published by UpWrite Mag.) ...

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Farewell, Oh Plague________Fell in some unconscious revelWith all my senses quite feeble.But I was roused up to discoverThat some virus paused the world. T'will fade away in no time—Just some vainly uttered oracle.For months passed in a while,And weeks just drifted by.I looked and observed through my lens;The world was shrouded in silence.And my ears were keenly openedTo eerie cries and theories spread.Natural cause...

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