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<pre class="wp-block-verse">Where is the last path on this map?<br> Where does it leads?<br> The end or<br> the beginning of endlessness?<br> I'm exhausted cramming<br> every escape route that leads out<br> of this chink - a house without home -<br> such is a life without laughter.<br><br> The fleshes of the<br> tortoiseshell-skinned beads<br> of my rosary are now<br> smoothened by workload:<br> I've been praying for water<br> to swim me outta this chink,<br> But I don't know which of its body to hit<br> for the water to penetrate through.<br><br> <em>Life without laughter</em><br> <em>is a lantern without fire;</em><br> <em>Fire is not all bad,</em><br> <em>it breathes light into lamps.</em><br> <em>But life without laughter</em><br> <em>is a fire sinking into itself,</em><br> Digging deep<br> into<br> water,<br> war,<br> wilderness;<br> collapsing treasures into ashes.<br><br> And when we started learning<br> how to shape our lips into laughter,<br> We have to start learning<br> how to stitch our skins<br> back into the future,<br> scar by scar;<br> For life without laughter<br> Is a body<br> wearing inferno under its skin.<br><br> But we ought to have been laughing<br> while the fire blazes;<br> Because laughter is water,<br> To laugh is to drink and<br> drown one's skin into a rill –<br> playing love-lore to a dancing flower –<br> fallen by windstorm.<br><br> And,<br> at last,<br> or at least,<br> water kills<br> wind heals;<br> And there would be<br> no injury,<br> no wound,<br> no scar.<br> </pre>



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A HOUSE WITHOUT HOME (a poem by Ayeyemi Taofeek)
