Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi is a Veterinary medicine student at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, a submission reader at the sea glass literary magazine, and an editor for the incognito press. Pursuing his enthusiasm for poetry, He has his works published/forthcoming in Gone Lawn, Brave Voices Magazine, and a few more @oaferanmi

Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi

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The trip was never a Metaphor

Today, this poem is to call you dead
if the meaning of life is, still, to be alive

not as a tree in the cemetery
that got its name from holy or sweet love
or home its eyes crawling over the spine

of the future we owe tomorrow, who are caged
in the ribs that bent over to kiss the ground
as nutrients to their fleeing family tree

Who kept searching for holy or sweet love
or home their heels rooted on fire, racing,
but they never catch them self. Today,

this poem is to call you dead
if the meaning of life is still to be alive.