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Omobolaji Okenla
Sep 8, 2018 · 1 min read

You have had pain and strife

Balling them into the corners of your cheeks

To taste them like wine.

Sometimes you forgot to spit

Your reasoning left you,

What sense you had before was gone

They peppered your love

Hitting inside the bridge of your nose

Making your eyes water.

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One day, still intoxicated

You met someone just like you

Someone you didn’t long to fix

And cut into the perfect pattern

Someone who didn’t want to fix you

Filling the missing gaps, expanding

To fill the tiniest of holes

And suddenly

Your taste matured

Whole now, you learnt that love did not

Need to hurt

And although “easy love” is mythical

You found someone that didn’t compress your chest into your spine

Omobolaji Okenla

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