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‘NATURE IS INJURED’ & ‘WHEN THEY ASK ME HOW I SURVIVED’ (two poems by Adeyeye James Oluwatobi)

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NATURE IS INJURED
Before you study the world Around you
Study yourself
Because You're a library filled with diverse books
Some days you are a book with dark lines - unknown to the world
&other days you're the sun in the faces of youngsters
Learning to spell survival
 
Before you dig into things around you
Dig into your own body & look for escape routes
For days you'll be confined to rooms filled
 with broken voices
 for days you will be left to write tests
 on the canvas of emptiness  
 
Because the world Around you is wounded too
& you run to her everyday // for cure

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