The Demons I Fought by Ayomiposi Adegbulugbe

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​Still, calm and noiseless
The charade bustling street is at rest
Emeritus drawing from the overflow
Well of Knowledge
Birthing life in white and black
 
Emptiness! A fight of vanity
Isolated in the other world
Waging war against inner demons
Ranging from human venoms
To cracking rumor
 
 Conspicuously muted
Her Mouth is sealed
Yet, she raced in heart
As she swims across oceans of thoughts
Mi Corazón esta perturbado
 
The bang is louder
Will she yield to its call?
Again, this tune fascinates me
Will she dance to the rhyme?
It all resonates with my soul!
 
This arrow pierces through her heart
It aches like a kiss of blade
Rivers ceaselessly flow through
Her balls, sad but true
Her guard is down
 
Imminent pains of gains
Applauds her tenacity
Her breast flapped in agony
Of want and needs
Reality is falsified
 
They all speak the familiar language of danger
Project of death in a lovely package
No more fight in paradise
Paranoid by paralysis of desire
Who wins, the demon or me?
 
This shadow deep in hollow
May one day hallow her hassle
Shackles of lack
Luck and will
Trends afar her
 
The cloud is ‘bout resting
Before dawn
I valiantly beat him
To rust and dust
Though choked but she moves!
 
Till next episode
Where the moon bows out to the sun
I shall retain my strength
To wind through the storm
And sail across the Nile