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Human, Yet Not Human
Favour Chinaza Nwabuisi
Favour Chinaza Nwabuisi
4 months ago

I'm only a poet when I'm hurting 

These days I've been hurting a lot 

Yet there has been no sound escaping my lips 

Worthy of poetic calling 

I've been void of words as I've been of feelings 

I try to cry but not a tear rolls down my cheeks 

I try to laugh but the weight of my heart burdens my lungs too much to make a scoff 

My emptiness is one only redeemed by loneliness 

For it is the only bird likened to it 

But my desires conspire against me in deceit for love 

Company, a connection I'm certain had been the root of my desolation 

So I question why I should ever return to that which has made me thus 

A human, yet not a human 

For I have become unfeeling and watch in time passing 

As all I've known deserts me and my brain makes friends with the ruins of my mind 

The suppressed breaths and the fragments of a shattered heart 

I reach in vain for longing but fear overshadows my grip 

So I touch not love, but the darkness of the emptiness snatching my soul from its core 

Leaving me thus,

Human, yet not human.

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