We have forgotten the language of grief
A long journey of virtual nothingness.We are not
a stream of engaging water,
as a hiker in the hottest
savannah, a sparrow searches for a river. A language
of non-alphabetical letters, concentrating
on every subject
of life's movement, between topics
of every class, like a
duty master on his duty. We live and
forget the compulsory
questions on our papers, skipping them like dawn trying to outlive
the dark. But our lives are measured by wings of a bird.
©️ Abdurrashid Abdurrahman
Abdurrashid Abdurrahman (Newborn Poet) is a Nigerian teen writer from Gombe state. He started his early education at Al-ansar Islamic Science Secondary School Gombe and he's currently a student of Jibwis Islamic Secondary School, Gombe. He is a poet, short story writer and essayist. Also, he is a member of Jewel Literary and Creativity Foundation, The Newborn Poets and Hill-Top Creative Arts Foundation, (Gombe state chapter). Memory Lane is his first collection.
Rasheed is a contributor at Newborn Poets Anthology 2024, published by World Voices Magazine and currently the chairman of Newborn Poets (Gombe state chapter). He is a lover of African literature. He has some of his works published or are forthcoming in synchronized chaos magazine and many other literary space.
He is a very talented poet whose future seems to be very good in creativity, and his voice would echo to the entire world, by God's will.
Rasheed can be reached through:
Facebook: @Abdurrashid Abdurrahman.
Instagram: @Abdurrashid Abdurahman.
Twitter(X): @Br. Rasheed.
Email: abdurrashidabdurrahman5@gmail.com.
