Born on a Friday in December, Fatihah Quadri Eniola is a young Nigerian poet whose work has been featured in The West Trade Review, The Shore Poetry, Agbowo, Brittle Paper, Isele Magazine and elsewhere. She is a nyctophobic gathering experience in Law in the premier University of Ibadan. Follow Fatihah on Instagram.
To The Girl Who Swears To
Love In Line
We have the same skin. Your
hair, the color of dormant
marigolds. Warsan said our
things do not belong to us.
Even my names, I left them
at the sound of a gun. We
spend evening watching the
birds deny the sky and this is
how we know the sorrow of
trees is the desertion of
leaves. We spend Eid
measuring our breast. You
spend Eid telling me of men
who asked you out before 18,
but Warsan said our men do
not belong to us and when I
told you to teach me a poem,
you brought out a blade
instead of a pen.
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