The End —Salim Yakubu Akko

The End —Salim Yakubu Akko

tears from a gloomy

stream came & took

away my little being

as i laid down counting

the unhatched days

i planned to weeve

into a book of life;

of glistening memories.

& a razor blade

was given to me

to shave the growing forest

on my head;

of gnawing histories

interwoven betwixt

the muscles and my arteries.

the time came & i could hear

and feel how the gently swaying

like the flavored lines

of an old haiku,

leaves of the mango tree

that grandpa used to say

were the every single

breath of my life dried

& fell, announcing the acme

of the life i murdered nakedly

with the cutlasses of my hands.

Bio:

Salim Yakubu Akko is a Nigerian writer and poet. He has his works published/forthcoming in Applied Worldwide, World Voices Magazine, Trouvaille Review, Ice Lolly Review, ILA Magazine, Scratch Poetry Magazine, Upwrite Magazine, My Woven Poetry and elsewhere. He has also been shortlisted for the 2021 Bill Ward Prize for Emerging Writers.

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