mobile blackout
umar yogiza jr.
they say the first &
the last colour the eye sees is blue
they don't make them here no more
blue lights
our sky is fixed in supply
red sky at birth
& red at death
everything is a soothing red
of blackout
our meetings are locks
of siren ambulance
driving our injured purpose to hospital
ours is naked farewell
a mobile blackout
the breath are epitaph
making monster our of our farewell
memories of pains
unmasking many memories
oh poetry, chalk board of my life
i forgo blue light
forgo siren, blackout and locks
if you are very far away i invoke you
come, take my hands
and occupy this encounter
dissolving to departure
Umar Yogiza Jr. Is a poet, builder, and part-time photographer. He lives and writes between Lafia and Abuja, where God and the Devil toss the coin of his life. He's the author of two chapbooks, How I killed Suicide and The Way Out Of My Heart, and three poetry collections, Instrument of Immortality, Singing in a Bonfire, and the way out of my heart.
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