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Drifted

Adjekawen A. Jeremiah 1998 (Delta State, Nigeria)

Dusty Papyrus
Metal case brown of rust
Flipped open on a shelf
Closes all by itself
Protesting how it hasn’t been opened for aeon
No denies, pass me on.

Flipping from cover to cover
Yet this verse lies further and further
Who reshuffled The Book?
Or has it been amended while not I look?
I now knoweth Oh Lord today,
I have drifted so much away.

I plead guilty to having lost
Find me like a sheep from a cliff fall
Throw me a rope
Pull me closer to your hope.

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The poem centers on the need to return to God after years of self-withdrawal from Him.

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Scheme XXAABB CCDDEE XXFF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 467
Words 102
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 4
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Adjekawen A. Jeremiah

Adjekawen Jeremiah Agberia hails from Ughelli south of Delta State, Nigeria. He is currently studying law at the Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The young poet of Uhrobo origin, who started writing poetry at the age of fifteen, is the firstborn son, amongs three brothers, of a single mother. Works of poetry penned by A.A. Jeremiah (his pen name), are mostly centered around love, romance, politics and betrayal; and, a few, on melancholy and nature. more…

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