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the world is going to end soon.
I look up into the sky at night so there
will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions & billions of
stars, all falling.
this made me feel shaky & scared.
but this place is all have, I have nowhere
else to run to. How there's oil in my soul but am split with dry skin.
the world is going to end soon.
here, I fold myself in prayer
to not fall into spastic illness before
the end of the world. so I took my
fountain pen
like a sky holding the moon like a womb
bears a baby.
and this is how I found myself in this
poem
like a harbage plant, planted beside the
river Niger
Ahmed Aminu
Ahmed Aminu, a young writer, poet, kwara
state, kaiama. A graduate of government secondary school, kemanji, head
boy. Currently teaching at alhikmah nursery and primary school, kemanji. my
poems has been published or forthcoming in synchronized chaos, pine cone
review, Ariel chart, and elsewhere.