Can you dream?

 

Can you even wear your dream?

In this land?

Where sprawling darkness 

plunders eyes

of the dreamer?

like vultures.

Where fires of million voicesices 

are doused 

into cold silence? 

Can you strut with pride

and proclaim the chants of your dream 

with no heightened tremor in your heart?

In this land?

Where cuffs fetter your feet

Or where tuberous lips

are smothered 

with pompous padlocks of power? 

as you swallow your pride

and sulk in the gutters of despair?

Can you shout out your dreams?

Without trembling fingers,

Stabbed soul

And goals, thrown into the smog

of nothingness?

Here in this terrain 

Where we tread, toil and try to tinker

All that is left from the mess,

our soil had harboured

Can you dream?

Even when Hope is like pile of shards

With cracks, too large to hide.

(Thanks for reading) 

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Kehinde Adedeji is a young poet and writer. He writes about pains and pearls, laughter and hope, tears and silence, women, Africa, etc.

Olukoga Opemipo (Opemiplenty)is a young creative-writer who believes in creativity and the beauty in writing. She’s a poet, fiction writer and lover, short-stories writer and an art enthusiast. She’s a student of the great University of Ibadan, currently studying Linguistics and African Languages. She believes in self-development, creativity and change for this to her is the spice of life. Her aim is to speak with her pen, impact and bring people to cherish and love literature and art just as she has for years.