A Song For You
Tonight, wither the leaves of grief from the thistle of your mind. Tonight, loosen the chain of sorrow fettering your legs from treading places of desire. Tonight, shatter the velvet of forlorn adorning your body as eldewiss embellish the face of gardens. Tonight, embrace the beautiful you, you've always been spurning like odious things Tonight, listen to this balmy song I compose for you, tonight, let my melody dissolve into a tomb; your grievances. BIO: Abdulmueed Balogun is a Nigerian poet & a second year student at the University of Ibadan, studying Biomedical Laboratory Science. He is a 2021 HUES Foundation Scholar & edits poetry for The Global Youth Review. He was longlisted for the 2021 Erbacce Prize, finished as a Finalist in the 2021 Wingless Dreamer Book of Black Poetry Contest, and won the 2021 Annual Kreative Diadem Poetry Contest. Find his work in: Decolonial Passage, Watershed Review, The Westchester Review, Short Vine, Subnivean Magazine, Soundings East Magazine, ROOM, Jmww Journal, Night Heron Barks Review, Bowery Gothic, Avalon Literary Review and elsewhere. He loves you deeply and you know it. He tweets from: AbdmueedA
Fevers of the Mind 