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They are dying with Schizophrenic characters who turn scrambled message boards
to idols slaughter slab.
Conversations are dying
They are dying daily,
in minute silence for dead batteries
power cuts to transistors,
monologues we sit on transformers to discuss ,
They are dying
with eye sockets glued to flat screens,
Excuse for wives burnt offerings
They are dying daily
with our broken moral compass
In a well-connected world, where we have the sangfroid to build walls.
I took a long walk, hoping to get lost,
lost in my thoughts, mid-way I got stuck:
"Conversations are dying
They die in metaphors,
They died in this poem."
Adeoya Ajibola
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