If You Come My Way

Poem by Jonathan Chibuike Ukah + Interview

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Each time you walk through this way
I struggle to fix my eyes on you,
I feel cinders and salt in my cornea;
 
Why do I feel as though I fry popcorn in my head,
whenever I see you coming my way,
your face scarred by the fingers of the sun?