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<h5 class="wp-block-heading">Suicide</h5>



<p>First, the mind
dies, leaves life,<br>
but returns as a zombie covered in<br>
festering wounds of thoughts.</p>



<p>Then, so the
world does not<br>
weep before their time to weep,<br>
the lips carry a smile invisibly sprawling.</p>



<p>Finally, it’s
time. Cut!<br>
Lamentations and blames<br>
begin to run berserk.</p>



<p>Ah-ah-ah…<br>
The zombie is gone. And the living<br>
stay only one step from the dead.</p>



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<h5 class="wp-block-heading">The Night Is Not Dark</h5>



<p>The night feeds
on<br>
the true darkness of<br>
the recoiling soul drenched in<br>
silent tears.</p>



<p>The night is a
little lad, infant,<br>
still crying to suckle at<br>
the sagging breast<br>
of the darkling mind.</p>



<p>With fallen
shoulders,<br>
the mind disburses currencies<br>
of tasteless milk— tongue-dead,<br>
voiceless beyond<br>
the noiseless body of the night.</p>



<p>Who says the
night is dark,<br>
when depression plants deep pressure<br>
in the depths of the punctured soul?

Get
them some light<br>
and feed them a billion cups of it,<br>
they who fade into the darkness in them.



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‘SUICIDE’ & ‘THE NIGHT IS NOT DARK’ (POEMS BY YUSUFF UTHMAN ADEKOLA)
