FREEDOM IS A MYTH by Rahma Oluwaremilekun Jimoh

freedom is a myth
& this home is a cage
we are birds nestled indoors
we sing and flock our feathers
but this home is a cage
for peacocks like us
the cage has been long-locked
by the bats and owls who
howls and scowls
as they squander our lots
the lock has been digested
in the bowels of a shark.
 
you want freedom?
so they release you to the air
but the air has been polluted
can you see? how your feathers fall off
one after another, soon you're
featherless and maybe fatherless
as freedom is a myth
& this home is a cage.
 

Rahma O. Jimoh is a writer and poet, a student of Mass communication, Olabisi Onabanjo University. Some of her works have been published in the African Haiku Journal, Hedgerow, and other online literary journals like The Quills, Fitrah review, Akitsu Quarterly etc. She was the second runner-up poesy writers contest 2019, a joint winner of the PIN 10-day poetry contest, May 2019, and was one of the shortlisted poets BPPC May and July 2019.

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