Christmas
Omidire, Joshua Idowu 1990 (Lagos)
I was the kid who made a habit of fetching water/ from empty rivers/ I know how earth cracks/when the sky never weeps. Wise men know they/ have to be buried before they grow. common knowledge/in the country of seeds/ so I buried myself in the grave of my dreams/I dreamt rice & chicken/ I dreamt firecrackers & fireworks/I dreamt adulthood & freedom/I dreamt of making castles & boxes/adorning my body in new attires/ and playing with plastic mother hen/ laying eggs and transforming them into live chicks/ my dreams were big but my hands were small/ so I sat in the sand and turned my hands into a womb/where I moulded my rice & chicken.my fireworks.my new clothes.my adulthood.my freedom. my castles.my boxes. my hen & chicks. and wait for December/ to help me daub them in living hues/mother steps into my dreams and tells me of kids who never wait/for the Christmas of things/ to make living souls/of their dreams/it’s always Christmas in the manger of dreams.
About this poem
I wrote this poem when I remembered what my childhood was during Christmas period
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Submitted by pageadventure123 on December 20, 2022
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