Strange sphere

 

Strange sphere

I swallow raw acid with glee

To prove that I'm strong,

In my black state of skin,

Before a jackpot of bundled dollars,

While the rich complexion guys clap

When I'm dying of poisoning.

Who told you, it is not fun

To watch a man die?

Casino of the bourgeois,

Men hypnotized their lousy emotions with spices of hemp.

Swim the boiling cups of chilling whiskey

And demand nasty horror to appease their rusty misogynistic pulses.

I am a stranger in a strange sphere,

Commit all demeaning righteousness for a resident permit

Cause one joking sin may lead the white angels

To send me back to my shit hole.

I wish you understand my irritating predicament.

Peppery disillusionment sap my astronomic expectations,

In terms of a day in their holy Olympus is equal to decade in void.

The media heavily sting me with "Why are you here?"

Tears tell the pathetic story

Without my mouth opening up.

Where did you come from?

Why don't you stay in your homeland?

Why are you here?

These statements hijack my memory like bandits

And I'm burning in their answerable punishments.

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Uche Chidozie Okorie