Sing it Aloud<\/p>\n
Not that facebook messenger failed me.
\nI was just too scared to be reminded the sting
\nof failing is a nightmare in the world of an orphan.
\nMy culture says it’s a taboo to heap weighty messages
\nin the mouth of a servant, to say their importance.<\/p>\n
Your messenger says life keeps breaking you
\nas if testing your tensile strength.
\nAt first, it was a beast demolishing your garage.
\nThen, a storm breezed in, tearing apart
\ninto shreds the name you built for decades.
\nI wanted to hear you speak these things to me \u2013
\nthese things seeking for asylum in your body.<\/p>\n
I remember my sentence to perpetual joy
\nafter I murdered my demons and drank their blood.
\nWhat’s a messenger that I cannot choke with my fingers?
\nI thrust my thumb. There were screeches.
\nMy voice finds its way in, asking you to sing songs
\nof healing aloud with me, and to conceive joyful songs.<\/p>\n
An eaglet learns to fly alone in the midst of a tempest:
\nmy mother died without teaching me a song.
\nSo, you understand why I love to invite strangers
\nto sing aloud rather than to serve them amala and ewedu. <\/p>\n
And most times, I lead. Heck! My voice is seraphic.
\nDo not be lost; the world is too large to sojourn.
\nSing aloud, first, your woes. Repeat. Repeat.
\nThen sing of hope, blessings and amen. Louder.<\/p>\n
*amala & and ewedu: Yoruba (Nigeria) traditional meal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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