To The Girl, Who Keeps Hitting The Back Of My Head. ~ Praise Uyioghosa Osawaru (Wordsmithpraise)2/7/2019 1. My head is not an antenna you hit thrice before it picks up a frequency,
So stop hitting me, I don't like it. I never have. 2. I imagine if I touched your lap and let my fingerprints sink into your thighs, Twenty-one pilots cannot save my life from crashing into a police cell. 3. If I poke your back and your bra accidentally slips off, I imagine you would slap me, yell at me and call me a rapist. 4. If I tell my friends, a girl slapped me, they would laugh at me and call me stupid. If you tell your friends, a guy touched your shoulders, they would mourn with you and call for my funeral. 5. My head is also a part of my body and I don't consent to such advances. So please, stop hitting me. Stop (sexually) harassing me. Praise Uyioghosa Osawaru, also known as Wordsmithpraise, is a poet and writer of Young Adult fiction and creative non-fiction. His short story - CHOP CHOP was featured in Writers Space Africa (WSA) April 2019 Edition. He is an undergraduate at the University of Benin. He believes we're all writers of our lives story and encourages everyone to make their lives a best-seller. Praise also blogs about art & literature. His blog - www.wordsmithpraise.com features reviews, stories and poems. Connect with him on social media, Instagram and twitter @wordsmithpraise.
17 Comments
Osas
5/7/2019 03:02:12 am
Wow Wow. This is amazing. I can see your perspective. Its also Hilarious.
jtaiwo
5/7/2019 05:46:41 am
Great poem😘😘 ,thumbs up
Praise
5/7/2019 11:39:19 am
It truely is a lovely piece.
Leks_fal
5/7/2019 02:33:15 pm
I love this in particular
Omons nessa
5/7/2019 04:07:51 pm
Hilarious tho but deep.nice one
Airen
7/7/2019 02:05:23 pm
Wow...this is really cool. Lovely message too *Guys can also be harassed*
Marycynthia
9/7/2019 02:18:22 am
Hilarious but realistic
Ojo Oluwaseun
9/7/2019 01:59:52 pm
Cool !
Dorcas
10/7/2019 03:53:29 pm
Lovely!
Raymond Oluwalola
12/7/2019 06:12:06 am
You had me with the first verse, then you now capped it with " twenty one pilots"...applaudise. (In Iyayan's voice)
Whyte Queen
12/7/2019 05:09:09 pm
Absolutely true! 22/7/2019 01:33:33 am
Thanks for reading. I'm glad we share the same perspective .
Felix
27/7/2019 02:04:42 am
Awesome poem.
Tobiloba
30/7/2019 02:52:37 am
Wow. Good poetic piece. It brings to the fore the different measures our society views sexual harassment. However, since this is a poem, I don't think numbering the verses into 1,2 is necessary. Realistically too, when a lady touches a man's head, it's most probably one of the strongest emotional showings of affection as there should have been some affinity between the male and the female before the 'hitting', I wonder if it can then be considered harassment, societally speaking. The fact still remains though that men can be harassed, nice work man, nice work. Leave a Reply. |
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