Two Poems

By Babatunde Waliyullah Adesokan

(Twitter: @tunde_adesokan

Instagram: @toondayatkins

Facebook: tunde.w.adesokan)

—Situationetik

After Stuart Mcpherson—

Situationetik / or the way my soul / ensconced itself / in a capsule of ethics / & echoes of situations / that cannot be undone // hum me into a poem / I will frame you into an ancient line / that murmurates / through strange verses // Like a univerbation / i collocate into a single word / swarming irretrievably to make meaning // The flight off of birds / the approaching feet that startle / the sounds of crickets / the rustle of lovers' bodies / the liver cooking melatonin for bedtime love / while lovers' hearts flower / relentlessly across or against / the pull of the moon // The burden of knowledge / that sinks us / deep / into each other / into this swarm of everything / of how microbes inside you / build you / of how muscled efforts of yours / was loving to the fabric of my skin / denied or benign / rhyming with the breath of the night breeze / towards or against the scalable / of impending catastrophe //

—a story grows a man—

before the womb

a boy lives with shadows

before the tomb

names are sacred chains

to ancestors

a folklore dog calling

to its moon mother

death barks all night

but we still wake

to a dawn

where particles of stories

fade us

where burdens hunch

our back

where stars vanish

from our hopes

where lovers morph into

liars

& debtors beggar creditors

into

recovery prayers.

where a man becomes

a bad loan

to a story that crumbles again

to bury him

About the Author:

Babatunde Waliyullah Adesokan (Toonday) writes from Oyo State, Nigeria. He works with Firstbank.

He is a lover of poetry; a lover of everything that breathes poetry. His works appeared / forthcoming in Pangolin Review, Wales Haiku, Ethel-Zine, Shallowtales Review, Stillwater Review, RoadRunnerReview, Lucent Dreaming etc.

Twitter:@tunde_adesokan

Instagram: @toondayatkins

Facebook: tunde.w.adesokan