MEMORIES
by Abdulmueed Balogun
A young man walks through
a hunted street and his phobia
resurrected from its tomb
Yet he walks, but with his eyes closed,
conjuring and using his mother’s pristine smile as a jab
to knock predatory thoughts off balance
He shuts his ears,
to preempt eerie voices from
creeping into his heart through its windows
by receding and whirring
from the chambers of his heart,
fear-snaring lullabies that
breathed through his mother’s voice
A young man managed to walk
through his fears,
in the absence of his mother,
may her soul in bliss rest
but with the presence of her memories.
MEMORIES
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Abdulmueed Balogun is a Nigerian Poet and an undergraduate at the University of Ibadan. He is a 2021 HUES Foundation Scholar and a Poetry Editor at The Global Youth Review. He won Honorable Mention in the 2021 Whispering Cresent Poetry Prize, was the runner-up in the Reform Naija Writing Contest- “FREEWILL” in November 2020, longlisted for the 2021 Ebarcee-Prize and shortlisted for the Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest (BBPC) February/March 2021. He’s a recipient of the 2021 SpringNg writing fellowship. His poems have been published/are forthcoming in Avalon Literary Review, JMWW Journal, Ligeia Magazine, Subnivean Magazine, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Incandescent Review, The Remnant Archive and elsewhere. He tweets from AbdmueedA
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