Strange Synergy (video poem)

To my Nigerian god!

Day 7 of GD_Words poems.

Do you want to sleep tonight? ~Adewumi Godwin

I don’t.

It’s lonely here.

There’s unfamiliar shadows.

And unknown voices.

I don’t want to sleep.

You can’t protect me from there.

Will you read to me?

Sing me a sweet melody?

Calm me from this anxiety?

I don’t want to sleep. ~J.A.A.G

Of course I will.

Stay up with you.

All night.

I’ll sing your strange shadows to dance.

I’ll read to you,

stories of past loves

before you found me.

Real love.

You don’t have to sleep and even if you do

I’ll keep vigil for you. ~Adewumi Godwin

Day 6 of GD_Words poems

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-Adewumi Godwin

Day 5 of GD_words poems.

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I tell these stories as they come to me- they always find me.

One after another, these wide eyed toddlers panting for new stories.

They liked the chills of horror, so they would often ask to be told stories that made switching off their room lights a bit more adventurous.

Almost like their world didn’t have enough thrill so they sought after mediums like their fantasies and my twisted mind to answer life’s questions.

~Adewumi Godwin

Day 4 of GD_Words poems.

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Words are beautifully hideous.
Standing alone they tell stories; “lost”.
Standing together they speak riddles; “I am lost?”.
Used right they reveal truth; “I am lost!”.
In the hands of a wordsmith they become characters only a depraved mind can have; “I don’t want to be found”.

~Adewumi Godwin