Dead Love

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The epitaph on the grave she buried me goes like this: Here lies the control freak, self-absorbed SOB, egoistical commitment-phobe, snob, sloth sleazebag and a worthless excuse of masculinity.

Well, maybe I have exaggerated a bit, but the hyperbole is just the second edition of what actually she did (not) say before she walked out one me for a barely legal, over self-absorbed Jay-Z wannabe trapped and confused in the limbo of whether to be a man or forever a boy.
I guess now the only thing that we share is lifespans in futility alone, history on (un)fair(l)y tale  and big screen love written down tattered books of breakups history.

However, I can’t prefix whatever she used to be to me with ‘ex’. She’s still dear and close to me, and I hope she’d come back with tears in her eyes. I’d gloat for old times’ sake.


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The God Delusion

First published on Naija Stories by elovepoetry and shortlisted for Chika Unigwe Best Short Short Story Competition last year. Twenty years on the run, twenty years in hiding, but there’s nowhere else

I Was Once Beautiful

At fifteen, my chest was a minaret calling men to worship;
fire burnt from the pit of my stomach, hot coals
and I forgot her words—
Educated girls fetch bigger dowry,
Uneducated is an oppressed wife
But stay in school long enough; the market is cruel to you.

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