To Adaku

by Gloria Koya

Dear Adaku,

i know your heart 

have been butchered by 

the words of men 

I’ve watched how 

you shed thick tears

and wail endlessly 

under the palm tree

But!

Do you not think 

that it pays to tread gently 

on vengeance’s path? 

To Adaku

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