Drifting Poem by Olawale Oluwole

Drifting

Rating: ★4.3


Is there any choice?
We've fallen into a pit
Where sorrow sings
And hope drowns in an endless sea.

Visions wear phantom masks
No one dares to lift.
The world spins anticlockwise,
And we row a boat
That was never ours.

Time bends.
We float, untethered,
Haunted by the echo
Of our own disquiet.

Olawale Oluwole
Thursday, October 11, 2007
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Craig Steiger 11 October 2007

very nice! just love that last line 'why are we still driving the boat/ that doesn't belong to the sea....'

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