SPEED OF LIFE

If life was this fast, imagine
Knowing I can fly from Lagos to New York
In just two seconds
If all men were that fast and life was summed
Five minutes at most
Sitting across the table in a restaurant
Looking into her eyes the thought came to me
That if life was that fast and I’ve got five minutes
I’ll spend it all looking straight into her eyes

If life was that fast, imagine
In five minutes I’d have met her family
Especially her Aunt Maggie who dislikes me
Not ignoring my Uncle Johnny who has a wooden leg
Cut through all that in prayer together
Walk down the aisle as a couple officially
Have a feel what a kiss from an angel feels like
Experience love in bed and watch her give birth in beauty and pain
Raise the two kids together
Who we’ve named after her Aunt Maggie and my Uncle Johnny
Maggie came in with her kids and Johnny’s a Professor of law
We’re now grand parents
Just then I noticed we’ve turned grey and wrinkled skin
Sitting across the table to her
Our very first date and that was all
Just a thought!

by Lawan Baldwin

Escape the grief
freezes heavy
A inside burnt and charred
ugly demon scream and tear
rip apart everwhere
a new division takes its wings
couldn't take the weeping please...
psychotic echo
screams undesired
surely the prize was I?
confused lamb standing still
a raging slaughter, qwaking chill
heart holding red
the slaves of hours
A prey for the taking
squash those that riped the mind
struggled and then they bind
evil lurks around the voice
it never hides
please don't weep for me...
I desire the black disease
Cover my hands bitter
A fate punched with might
Stop the voices from their dispute
a lucid dream I can't refute
could hate myself with all my demons
dwelled to creep within the veins
cut the blood to see it gore
zero weeps I hear no more
make this leave the kill
A maddness still remain
make this leave the gore
The pain without a score
stop the demons with a scream
spotted gouges scratching frail
pale lamb beside the tree
shivered hell beside a scream
they all wish the lamb would run
I say let it stay it's far to dumb
shivers and hell and to screams dismay
the lamb that ran away.

by MTracy

Dissected

Nail clippings stuck in the throat
The skeletal-faced doctor died in childbirth

Removing and consuming
the yelping heart

It was turned around and burned with the flaming veggies

Taste of salty ashes
suck at the
hollow tongue.

by Sarah Ahmad