YOUR WAY OF LIFE

   ©Adeyele.R.Adeniran

your anger has settled

like the calm that follows 

after a wrecking storm, 

but the stab of betrayal 

still stings, 

you bury pain under your skin 

like the grave your father lies in, you know it is there but you live past it, 

you smile like bullets are 

gentle snow pecking your cheeks, like your tears 

aren't salty enough

to cook your rice, 

you are not thick skinned 

but you are learning to be- because everyone around you 

are like pythons that pose like rubber,

looking harmless

but really they are poisonous. 

this is the way you live, 

feeble but muscular, 

this is the way you live