10/25/12

LOVE SONG
By D.M Aderibigbe


I'm wielding my melodious pen, pouring dulcet blood
on the staircase of a piece of paper.

I'm writing a sonorous song, that will sing itself
In your heart when your eyes bump into it.
The lyrics will preach my love, as long as I live,

even, when my page is turned over, it continues to linger on like Methuselah.

Even when your heart crumbles, like a
Tsunami-hit building,
It will live on, like the deathless songs of praises.


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D.M Aderibigbe is a 23-year old Nigerian. An undergraduate of History and Strategic Studies of the University of Lagos. His poetry and short fiction have been published or forthcoming in 8 countries, in journals such as Wordriot, The Applicant, Red River Review, Ditch, Kritya, Thick jam among others. He's a die-hard Inter Milan fc fan, and a big follower of Naomi Shihab Nye, Natasha Trethewey, Ilya Kaminsky, Lola Shoneyin among others.