When I sniff and sniff
I think I stink and stink
When I blink and blink
I think I’m blind an blind
When I listen and listen
I think I’m deaf and deaf
When I walk and walk
I think I’m a crippled cripple
When I touch my hair
I feel I’m bald and bald
Maybe I’m feeling myself
In my future, in a hot hot oven
Hardened like a frozen cake
Burning and being eaten to the bone
Let me live and live
That’ll be the nastiest place to be.
Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014