Guest Writer: Senator Ihenyen
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What if this scourge
This pandemic, this plague
Wiping out our race
Without a face
A thing seeping through the open sores
Of the way we love, sores of the way we make love,
Treat love, desire love, the way we show and share love?
The way we name love?
Just a thing seeping through the open sores
Of the way we push and test love,
The way we tempt love, open sores of the way we kill love
The way we forget love
What if it is just a thing
Seeping through the open sores
Of the way we sell love,
Compromise love
The way we treat love and shame love?
The way we touch love, sacrifice love?
Or sometimes,
A thing seeping through the open sores
Of the way we prove love?
Way we hold on to love
When it’s no more there,
The way we fight for love?
What if it's the way we wait for love
When love is gone,
The way we live for love
When love is dead?
Way we find love
When there is no love?
What if this scourge
This pandemic, this plague
Wiping out our race
Without a face
Was just a thing?
What if it’s the way we love?
ABOUT OUR GUEST WRITER
Senator Ihenyen is a practising Nigerian lawyer, author and poet. He is the Founding Editor of Poetry Mill (now Green Griots Literary Consultancy), providing evaluation and editing services for young poets.
His debut collection of poems, 'Colourless Rainbow' (Coast2Coast, Lagos, 2011) got honourary mention in the ANA/Gabriel Okara Prize for Poetry in the same year. 'Stranger in the Mirror of My Life', his newest collection of poems which is predominantly centered on HIV/AIDS, has been released in November, 2013 (ebook).
Also published in few anthologies, his works have been widely introduced to readers across the globe through the internet. A graduate of Law from the University of Benin, Ihenyen, after his sojourn to the Nigerian Law School, Kano, and national service at in Ilorin, Kwara State, is now back in Lagos where he grew up, and lives. You can visit his blog at senatorihenyen.wordpress.com
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