Unearthly
written by: Mahbubat Kanyinsola Salahudeen
It often happened at dinner.
the whistling, then came the blast
followed by an expulsion of breath and knowing
that I have been spared–
but only just
while somewhere, amid cries
and choking clouds of smoke there
was a scrambling, a barehanded digging
of pulling out debris what remained of a sister, a brother
a grandmother
I wasn’t at all surprised
when father said–
fate is what is beyond man’s control
in every book, everyone has a chapter, we
are mere words in pages
of reincarnated scripts
we come back again
we are mere characters
entertaining God
but then I wonder
if God was smiling
or sobbing when our
breaths were rinsed by death
while we entertain
Mahbubat Kanyinsola Salahudeen is an 18 year old lady from South Western Nigeria, she is a 100 level Communication and Language Arts student of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is from a family of seven, a lover of cats and a passionate singer and caterer. She is an ardent human rights activist, a member of Girl Up Community, Female And More, a Girl Up Scholarship Fund Receipient 2021, a Yex Factor True Grit Award Receipient 2021. She derives her storytelling ideas from movies, romantic novels and imagination. She is a football fan and a lover of documentaries and historical novels. She has written poems, stories, articles and essays. In addition, she is also a public speaker, a debater and a news reporter. During her high school years, she was nominated class president numerous times, she was a president and secretary of the Press Club, she was also elected department representative of the Humanities department during her second year in senior secondary school. Her literary works are basically about human rights.
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