Unfaithful Muse

Abdulkareem Adeniji

Abdulkareem Adéníji is a Nigerian Sufi poet. an essayist. he devotes himself to healing the hearts with the arts, which many have been gracefully healed and still doing to date. tweets @Abdulka27100997

for a very long time
i have wished for documentation
of these chants that took sleep from
my eyes and estranged me from dear loved ones,
so as to etch me in the heart of the earth - who does not
know the evergreen trees. (?)
but now i know
what seems soft is sometimes tough in disguise
- the blacksmith and his iron gleaming shine -
it is bait for those who dare to touch it.

there are many voices
in the head
of those who fulfilled gods
and a heap of holes in their brains.
i am truly becoming crazy
which ways to write magic like bards
to be genuinely accoladed with a ripple of praise
" spellbinding. masterpiece. well done. "
many a time i would find myself talking to nature
the gentle wind and flowers
the blue colour and the leaves dancing
with rising clouds by which the land
becomes purified - rainfall.
it takes me out of my comfort zone and arrives
at unknown places:
like fish suffocating on the land
like birds soaring above so high

silence is a path to muse

at times i throw my eyes against the walls
maybe i could find clues to my languid poem
oh, i have too experienced this
i would welcome the dawn in reading
when the day comes to bid farewell
with books, i would
yet i would struggle to form
a stanza for weeks
what kind of evil touches could that be?