Spoken Silence
By L. Isijola
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Spoken Silence is a collection of poems that describes an immigrant, millenial woman experience living in America with underlying theme of spirituality and faith.
L. Isijola
Lola Isijola is a Nigerian-born American poet and novelist based in the Mid-west. She uses poetry to describe the immigrant narrative in America through the female lense. Lola is currently working on her debut novel, Brothers.
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Spoken Silence - L. Isijola
TIME
Bliss it be
Immune to such trivialities of humanity's fallen state
Wonder if they too wonder about our present mortal body
Just as sure as when the woman took the bait
A bite,
Like gravity down came humanity
Angels knew then as they know now
The collapse from celestial to mortal
Brought by the wrinkles in time
Once wrapped in celestial bodies
Now given to decay
Or they may be wholly oblivious
Wrinkle free and floating high unaware of gravity
No menace of crows feet around their eyes
No indelible lines of joy around the lips
No harrowing furrors between their brows from existence
Ancient Minds
My grandmother knows how to do math better than me
While i'm fidling around with digits on the calculator
She pulls out her pen and paper and begins
To construct tidy columns of numbers
Neatly arranged one underneath the other
Carrying one's to add to two's in her head
Drawing a line directly underneath the number tower
A brick wall set on smooth foundation
My clumsy little hands fumble and push the wrong button
Now, to start over
OBSIDIAN
The Wrongness of Black
Because your ebony scares me
I flee
Onyx skin glaring against the noon-day sun
I run
Because I don't understand the extent of layers kin to tar with no relief
Or reprieve of a softer shade
I turn away
Is it wrong to not understand?
Is it wrong to turn?
And run at something that is the opposite of me?
Is it wrong that I become ashamed at something I am not?
Acting on the basis of superiority in this complex color-woven world
Light-bright, I understand, I see from a distance
Dark-night, much harder, must come closer
Breaching the barrier I have been trained to create
Will I ever know what exactly is wrong with your blackness – and why?
I’ve been taught to breed this belief
To procreate progenies and perpetuate perceptions based on outlines of a Shade I can never see