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POET OF THE WEEK: STAR OKPEH

A Tale of One City

When you are a Nigerian,
You are a being between a cave and the sea.

The sea roars.

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It is telling you that it has seen the nakedness of your mother and her mother’s mother.
It has seen blood become dew settling on the innocent and guilty.

The cave is a den for hungry thieves that seem kind because kindness here is a strategy for murder.

You wonder,
About beautiful things before the quest for power says “It is unreal”

Star Okpeh is a Nigerian writer and poet, Miombio’s Review Princess of African Poetry 2019 and
Author of The Dance of Dawn.

 

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