Author • Oyeniyi Joshua

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If only I knew that the world was a marketplace
I wouldn't have come empty.
I would have brought with my infant self,
A coffin; where I can escape
When I grow tired and old.

I shouldn't hold on this too strong
To fall,
To know how my people
Would weep and mourn
When I leave.

For my mother's belly was not enough
I had to be born
But the world is too big
I want to return.

Tell me when I will go back home,
I want to return in silence.

Return In Silence

Readersketch | Ed. Adesola Oluwafemi

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