when a child talks of heartbreak
she is a room of combating shadows
and photographs taken in the altar
then a voice chasing another voice with rage.
when a child talks of heartbreak
she is a wind carrying people to places
cities of walking bones
towns of dead dreams
where guns are birds that sing melody
to the ears of the metropolis
when a child talks of heartbreak
she is a street filled with blood
blood of bodies
that auctioned their lives to vehicles.
when a child talks of heartbreak
she is a defiled breath under
the nose of her master
she is a demolished building
weeping in silence
a bird singing for her mother in a necropolis.
Philip Chijioke Abonyi (21st century) Nigeria
Source: African Writer
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