GEN-Z- POEM ABOUT THE PHYSICS OF BREATH AND HOPE

Abubakar Auwal

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Yesterday, we sold our names/ in the pocket of lust/ transform our

tongues in fire—/ & garnish our throats in the pebbles of blood shower

& today, the history mother tongued us to sip from the chest of our ancestors

is carved between the drum of war & the speaking guns in her radio transistor.

this night. in mothers womb/ we’re two cities of grief;

one; a city where hunger and death wrote poems about the humming in elegy’s hamlet

others; are boys / who measure the weight of their breaths and the gravity of bullets.

in this verse—/ I’m the metaphor between time, hope & motion

of when memories will swallow up memories/ & mysteries are dead quotation,

of when father(s) will know Addu’ar Talaka isn’t for his/(their) tease(s)

of when we’d throned bright(s) god(s) & died in peace. ion.

Abubakar is the Editor-in-chief of New Voices Magazine and a junior editor at Poetry. Com and proudly a member of Hill-Top Creative Art Foundation. He won the Splendor of Dawn poetry and short story competition (February-April edition, 2023) and was a finalist for the NSYTH Poetry and spoken word recitation.