Origin.

( After Adedayo Agarau’s Fine Boy writes a poem on Anxiety.)

where i come from, 

the cloud is a bipolar maniac, 

shedding profuse tears that floods our homes and roads,

and grinning so hard that our skin sobs, cracks and blackens.

where i come from,

Lincoln's proposition goes wrong,

demoligarchy is the order of the day-

a government of some people, by some people and for some people. 

at a national park in Arizona, 

a hooting barn owl is a nocturnal raptor.

in this place, 

a hooting barn owl is someone's grandmother. 

here, every man is a believer,

only that our faith differs,

and is sometimes hypocritical. 

our dialect is confounded,

like that of folks at the Tower of Babel,

only a foreign language binds us. 

where i come from,

fire isn't the only thing that burns–

even fire gets burnt!

Olaore Durodola-Oloto is a budding writer from Lagos, Nigeria with keen interest in poetry and fiction. He has work published/ forthcoming in Brittle Paper, JCI Magazine, Outside the Box Poetry, The Kalahari Review, Inverse Journal, Blue Flame Review, Anthropocene Poetry Journal and elsewhere. He is currently an associate editor at Zoetic Press. He tweets on X @olaore_philip