Another Morning

Poem by ATP

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Another morning
And the metallic shriek of the alarm clock
Wakes you
Already there is a cause for alarm:
You cannot move your arm,
Or your leg, or your neck
You have used today's strength for yesterday's
Labour

Dark clouds of rain gather in your eyes
Pain plays your veins like an electric guitar
That offended him

Your village people are having a festival in
Your head, trampling the soil of your brain
Into finer dust
Your head has a heartbeat
That sounds like a drum of war

But your bank account is starving
So you drag your half-corpse body off the
bent bed to gulp a pain reliever,

The clock chases you out of the house
Into the door of a cab

The world is full of horns
The incense of cars makes you high
It feels like you are swimming in air

Your boss is waiting for you at your seat

Your heartbeat

Is the celebratory drum of defeat

He is an elephant and he blows his trumpet
To announce your arrival
You are late again and the whole world
Must know
Your have a runny mouth as you apologize
Your boss flaps away your words with his ears
He is an elephant and he blows his trumpet
He serves you a breakfast of insults

Ears full, you sink into your chair to
Continue the job that is eroding your health
But the annoyed face of your colleague
Transforms into your bedside clock
He opens his mouth and screams like a
Tortured bell

You wake up again on your bed
With a tired body and an aching head
Yet you rise with courage
Ready to live out your recent dream.

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Adewuyi Taiwo is a graduate of Geology from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He enjoys writing poetry about everyday life and bingeing on adventure novels. He is, at the moment, striving to create and perfect an African style of poetry and story writing that will be considered unique to him.