The Apocalypse | Ogunkoya Samuel

This is how to write the story

of the end of (your) existence:

You will have a sister

who plucks her eyebrow

to chew on and paints

her teeth with her mucus.

You will have a son who was killed

for stealing food by the same mob

that murdered your paraplegic mother,

they claimed she was a witch.

You will receive the validation you seek

so smile,

smile to conceal the

darkening of your mind

and the loss of the future

for in your book,

the world ends today.

Ogunkoya Samuel is a Physiotherapy student at  Obafemi Awolowo University. He has written many unpublished poems and prose. He can be reached on twitter @SamuelOgunkoya.