Chikamobi Okoloeze Orjichukwu
say he died trapped in a body, in a room
in a room where I’m everything else except myself where graying is smoke in motion
it feels like light trapped between eyelids within closed doors as prayers said in the
heart & as i watch my shadow mend wounds i do not see i begin fading
like i was a digit in continuous division nothing changes much until darkness
begins its soft hug & for once i’m the beat between two heartbeats the unwholeness
child someday god will beg us or me when he the prodigal sculptor returns to meet bones
becoming dust maybe this amnesia or déjà vu maybe this clustering of eternal
fears will wade through time to whisper to the wind & the wind to seeds & the
trees to nestling birds & birds to trees or laughter to tombstone again child
it will ever be us forgotten shapes explaining the sculptor by his fingerprint & us
inordinate colourations blessed by god because the absence may only be a small hiatus
it feels like light trapped between eyelids within closed doors as prayers said in the
heart & as i watch my shadow mend wounds i do not see i begin fading
like i was a digit in continuous division nothing changes much until darkness
begins its soft hug & for once i’m the beat between two heartbeats the unwholeness
child someday god will beg us or me when he the prodigal sculptor returns to meet bones
becoming dust maybe this amnesia or déjà vu maybe this clustering of eternal
fears will wade through time to whisper to the wind & the wind to seeds & the
trees to nestling birds & birds to trees or laughter to tombstone again child
it will ever be us forgotten shapes explaining the sculptor by his fingerprint & us
inordinate colourations blessed by god because the absence may only be a small hiatus
Biography
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Chikamobi Okoloeze Orjichukwu (he/him) is a Nigerian. He studies English and Literary studies at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. As Orjichukwu Chikamobi Golding too, his works have appeared in Praxis Magazine, Stone of Madness Press, The Muse Journal, Young African Poets Anthology in Agbowo mag, Upwrite Mag, and elsewhere. He was runner up for The Muse Poetry Prize (2019). You can reach out to him on Twitter @chikamobi
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