7 POEMS by UCHECHUKWU ONYEDIKAM
1
dark night, raw & haunting
terror wind sweeping
a lover’s abode —
spring cleaning
a night ago
2
memory sinks her teeth
deeply into the thought
of wild imaginings
making monster
of fairies in my sleep
3
midnight prayers
evil eyes lurking in the dark
feeding my fears with blood
dragging me to an unholy saviour —
corrupted my salvation
4
bleeding red moon
vampires out to feast
at my body laying —
fully dead, half living
upon the altar of darkness
5
a dark shadow drifts
upon my lover’s eyes
her shaky voice shrinks
falls deeply down her throat
gasping for air
6
empty skeleton
sucking on cancer stick
prisoner to her dark shadow
chasing the leftover
of each sour breath
7
beware of her breast
a twin tower hoarding
unseen horror —
the lure of men
to kiss death’s holy place
©2023 Uchechukwu Onyedikam All rights reserved.
UCHECHUKWU ONYEDIKAM is a Nigerian creative artist based in Lagos, Nigeria. He’s appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly; Brittle Paper, Poetic Africa, Hood Communists; and, print anthologies. He’s in a book collaboration series (tan-renga) with a Malaysian Poet, titled Pouring Light on the Hills.