On the verge 
This is not a poem or poetry, it’s rambling, I feel close to tears not for anything in particular but because I think I feel everything and nothing all at once, i want them to come get me and make me feel better, i want them to call but i know I don’t want to pick up, I want them to stay and I want them to go, I want the opportunities but I don’t know if I can manage, I want ice cream, berry blast and suya, I want to be home so bad, I want to close the door of my room and disappear, I want to ball my eyes out.
I want to not care so much, while simultaneously caring about everything, I wish I had more bandwidth, I feel loose at the hems, I feel too overstimulated but somehow bored, I want to not exist, I want to not feel, I want to sleep so deeply and only wake up when necessary, I want love, I want to be wanted but also not care about being wanted, I want to move out but stay put.
Nothing helps, nothing helps, should I have fought harder, why does life have so much to do with fighting, even plants fight each other for sunlight, can being alive even ever be categorized as peaceful, I think to be alive is chaos, living is chaotic, the entire universe is chaos with everything hanging on a delicate balance.
This too shall pass, Abi is that this too shall end, anyone Sha, social media is shit, the economy is shit, can I manage my life, myself. Knowing there is something special about myself doesn’t make me feel special, does anyone feel so uncomfortable being seen as I do? I don’t want to need anyone or anything, why do we all need sustenance, why can’t life be just a little easier, to be Nigerian feels like you drew the short straw, do you think we draw straws for the kind of life we get to live?
I passed out once, I think about it sometimes the simple and quiet emptiness of not being conscious or could we also say of not existing, I feel nothing but a low buzz of everything, I know it’s there, I am just disconnected
Love comes back around
Sitting at the airport at 2am
Thinking about love and relationships and how they encompass so much of our lives
How someone you think you’d never love again becomes a life long partner
How a long time friendship turns into a steamy love story
How some people could never really move on from a love that was lost
How two ex lovers, one day, can’t be in the same room because feelings
How we miss our pets when we travel for a bit
How mum’s sometimes live for their kids
We go about our little lives but there is a big part of us and simply wants to love and be loved
Hi there
I hope it hurts a little less today.
Do I exist
Like I know I am here
I feel my body, I see everything around me
I smell smells
I hear things
I feel feels, I love and I am loved
But sometimes it doesn’t feel real
It’s hard to call it dissonance
But I feel untethered from time to time
Like most times I am not here
But the real me fights through the haze and I am me
In that moment
But that makes all the other moment not feel real
Okay it doesn’t sound coherent
Maybe it’s not
Maybe that’s the whole point
Get to know your self,
What you love, like or hate
What makes you smile the widest
What makes you feel excited
What is love to you
What makes you feel afraid
What saddens you deeply
Who brightens up your day
I am a sensitive soul and sometimes it understands on some level the struggle of others unspoken and there is an itch to help drag them out of the hole they can’t seem to come out from
But It also knows you can’t really drag another person out of their hole, only hope they get the strength to drag themselves out and letting them know, you are standing right at the exit holding out your hand
Moving on
Moving on from something is an entire process, moving on from a person is a different ball game, however watching someone move on from you brings with it a unique different type of sadness, which can be hard to articulate at first but then you sit with it for a bit and you come to the realization of why this sadness feels different, it’s cause you are being de-centered but then you think when did being in the center of another person’s life matter to you so immensely and then you realize it’s simply love.
I don’t think you can fully stop loving someone you truly loved, they will always be a small part of you that you carry forever.
That’s it, that’s the post.
“Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.”
— Sylvia Plath
A friend once said “the ground is shifting under her”
At first I didn’t quite get it but now I think I do.
The ground shifting is when your sense of safety, be it a job, a house or a relationship is unraveling and definite change is inevitable.
And in those moments, where everything seems so unsteady and uncertain, where do we find comfort?
Some say you should embrace the discomfort and I think there is some truth in that, I think it’s also weird so what else? Radical acceptance maybe? Or finding snippets of joy in what you can and hold on for dear life.
I am still figuring it out as my own ground is also shifting
I have a different fear
It’s the fear that if this love dies, I won’t find another love, I won’t grow to be very comfortable in a new love, can this new love be trusted?
I am afraid of new love
I don’t write great poetry but I write and they make life feel a little less heavy
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