Makinde Adeniyi

Biography: Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi is a Prince, Physician (by training), Poet, and Author. He has published 2 poetry anthologies titled "Night Marauders and Other Poems," published by Carrot Publishers in 2022, and "Echoes from the Savannah," published by Amazon in 2024. He is currently working on another poetry anthology. He writes poems about social issues, culture, nature, love, and medicine. Some of his poems are Afrocentric in nature with a tilt towards the Yoruba culture and tradition.

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Makinde Adeniyi
Sunday 8 September 2024

Silence



Every night I pay obeisance 

To all the pillars in the house 

Yet, by the morning

Clothes drenched, bed soaked

Awakening becomes aversion


At first light, mama said 

"How was the night"

Silence

"Oh! It has happened again"

More silence


Then shame 

Of drying the raffia mat

I looked up to Eledumare

Deliver me from opprobrium

Again, silence

Forlornly, I embrace fate

Doomed to be an Island


One day

I woke up dry

Is this a dream?

I told nobody

It must be delusion

Next day dry

Again! 

Then dry

              Dry

                   Dry…


 From: Echoes from the Savannah. © Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi, 2024



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