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BY OREOLUWA FOLORUNSHO
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Watch me as I slowly waltz to the howls of my own screams
Held tight in a lover’s embrace with my regrets
Welcome to the ballad of sadness
You’ll be served the appetizers: your biggest failure
Next comes the main course, a recap of the greatest mistake of your life
And for dessert, we have trauma
Watch as the anxiety slowly builds like an orchestra reaching its climax
Watch as my dreams hang on the ceiling like a chandelier
And my loss flows like the booze at a rave
Welcome to the ballad of sadness
My darkest secrets will be served with the cutlery of judgment
My integrity on a tray of inferiority
Watch me as I worship in the shrine of my pain
Basking in the glow of my misery
Welcome to the ballad of sadness
Dressed in my guilt
I slowly drink from the cup of my shame
And twirl into the nothingness of my heart
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Oreoluwa Folorunsho writes poetry for Daily Akokite.
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