Letters to No one By: Marvée

Students went silent every time I passed by them at the hallway, gazing intently at me with their eyes filled with pity, some even with scorn.

There was no other reason for that reaction except for the fact that I was a cancer patient, skinny with my long neck like a rope's and my bones as boundless as the sea.

Not only because I have no friends left, not only because I hate walking into the hospital just to hear the same thing from the doctor, not just because I had to wear a stupid wig to cover up the well known fact that i'm going bald, but I hate my life because it hurts to know that someone who didn't deserve died in the course of protecting me. To me, life ain't worth living so I decided to take the next step. The biggest decision I made throughout my entire life, without the help of my parents,was to put an end to it.

I would also be putting an end to my family's problems, we were not even financially stable but I made them a lot of hospital bills..they didn't need me around anymore.

At the close of school, I kept going up the stairs until I got to the roof top, pure joy! I counted my steps slowly along with my heart beat and when I got to the rails I placed my left leg first then my right hanging in the air. I jumped.

My name is Anna

Marvée©
Poet.ess

Artwork titled; A path way through an alley by; John Madu

Comments

Painful letters By: Marvee

Every time I feel this way This terrifying kind of pain These twitchy palms and muffled sobs These weakened sights and mindless slob I would think of something To put me at ease, anything At times, to leave my world And be someone else, not a dud Often times I would write on plain sheet Write till my limbs felt weak Write till the page is covered in ink Write till the painful times shift. ©-Marvee

The So Called Queen By:Salawu Olubunmi

_The so called queen of the zanger A woman of misery and deceptive appearance Wags tongue in a swordlike How angelic she be when seeking the honey frm it's comb With her romantic but deceitful display The first sight of her left me in dismay First encounter with her was heartrending Such a sweet poison A devil in disguise wit an angelic face The so called queen can neither be embraced nor avoided.

THE GCE GIRL By: OLUSEGUN AKINSANYA

Every year we welcome into our community several teenagers between 13 and 17 from far and near. They are both male and female. They have the same mission. They have come to write General Certificate Examination (G.C.E). Most of them are penultimate students in secondary schools. These little fellows have been fixed at centres nearby to write their exams and the people that brought them have accommodation as part of the payment agreement. Some of these children are leaving home for the first time. Some of them look like mom's pets. Immediately they hit the town, you see a lot of ambiance and noise, something like a carnival. They make noise in the morning while looking for water for domestic use and in the evening when they are back from their different centres. It's always a new experience for most of them, and they seem to enjoy it: yea, they seem to enjoy being away from home for a whole month, a kind of escape from the eagle eyes of their parents; they seem to enjoy a t...

OLUWAJIMI . J . THORPE

Search This Blog