Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 07/20/22

Scriptures

_death marks no end_

the dreams man has, bottled up at the edge of his heart
Is end

_death kills none_

have you heard the saying
that you die before you die?
the life of a man whose will to go on is no less than a
0.22 percent
Is dead shit

_screw the living_
_screw the dead_

We all same meal waiting to be devoured
We all same dust waiting for nature’s wind

_be it whirl_
_be it tsunami_

It’d fling our vessels to rapture’s path
I am dead man living with neighbor, pain
I am baked bread about to dine with Master Karma

_oh wait! where’s dinner?_

Forgive my shady piece ;
depression’s mark
this is no poem and
you need not understand my verse of revelations

_i am not begging_

We’re two shitty beings
one at the onset of life
the other, battling at the peak

_you’re not but a child_

life hasn’t stung you yet
agony hasn’t stripped you dry ;
probably. you’ve been too young to accommodate a pinch of shame, but

_cheta_

your cross ain’t mine
and death,
won’t rip her significance off you

©2022 Chukwuma Eke Pacella Chioma All rights reserved.

Glossary
Cheta—remember

Chukwuma Eke Pacella is a seventeen years old poet, a short story writer, an editor and a feminist that hails from Ihembosi in Anambra State. In 2020, her poem “Anatomy of pain from a boy’s body” emerged as the winning entry for the Cradle poetry contest. It was also shortlisted amongst several others for their issue I, a collection of poems curated by the Arts Lounge. In December 2021, she became a joint winner of the FOW on-the-spot poetry contest and its spoken-word finalist. She is a recipient of the 2022 Nigerian Prize For Teen Authors Award and the First runner-up for the BKPW February/March Edition. Her poems have also been shortlisted for the Medusa anthology, BKPW and BPPC’s “Do Not Die In Their War” April/May Edition. Some of her works have appeared or are forthcoming on Synchronized Chaos, Eunoia magazine, Poetry Soup, IHRAF, Last Leaves, Haven Spec, Star*Line, Cajun Mutt Press, My Woven Poetry, literal anthologies like the Pixie and Pexels and the My Rainbow book poetry collection. She is also a member of the Next Generational Poets and the HillTop Creative Arts Foundation.