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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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Monday 4 November 2024

On The Run

On the run

Hunted by my past, trailed by my shadow,

Intoxicated by elixir of youth,

I climb the ìrókò beyond the leaves.

Wail of woes, dehydrated dreams

Crushed in the battlefield of the deep;

Love lost, hoarse voice, greying hairs.

The wind slaps me cold,

Drunk with evil pleasure,

Sweet sorrow envelopes me;

Then it dawns on me,

I’d frittered the forest and harried the sea

With eyes larger than my stomach

While lost in the jungle of ambition.

I have impregnated the sand

and birthed blood;

Now,

Buried in the remnant of the night,

Fame

Is a remote treacherous valley

of thorny roses.

Wandering in the wilderness of civilization,

The stench of my decomposing sins has found me out.

A prisoner in my own skin,

I must hide and run,

And run and hide.

Solace in firewater and ghettos,

Like the hourglass,

I must hit the highway

And journey to nowhere.

In the end,

I can't outrun my shadow.

From "Echoes from the Savannah" © Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi, 2024

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