My Home is a Burning Body
written by: Isa Sa’ada Yahaya
My home is a burning body,
embodied in a chest.
In this land,
darkness is a dialect every tongue raps.
My home requests walls raped by bullets,
painted with pigment reeking of losses, of ripped limbs, of grieving thighs.
In my home,
In another language, my mother calls me a murderer.
To a body reeking of thirst,
A brand new dawn awaits you.
Isa Sa'ada Yahaya is a teenage author. She hails from Kogi state. She was born on 13th of January, 2008. She is a member of the hilltop creative writing foundation. She is a spoken word poet and a feminist.
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- My Home is a Burning Body - April 20, 2023
