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In this complex box of world, 
compact box of world, 
where all are jumbled – fumbled,
where the mightier reign their voice, 
others adore their choice,
how? how can I guide you to nail   
a steadfast identity,
a fixed poetic self?

I dreamed, 
as a young poet, bearded like a pard.
I stood at an imagined crossroad …
read name posts, hanging higher:

Satire - Beauty - Tragedy

not knowing on which one to go,
but I wanted to make a choice:
the right choice, only one choice.

“Satire” – I knew can lead me to be 
A satirist, a wordsmith very rude,
We met in Thesmophoriazusae
Or in Shadwell’s aching bruise.
A satirist comes with a plan to hurt,
With an utterly smelly line of dirt,
A truly an innocent, honest heart
And to rot his own heart and art.

“Beauty” – a greener, flowery path,
with a dreamy, fairy castle in its end
I knew I can lead me to be 
a beautician.
I felt I can cover a spoiled city of stench
with a magical carpet with soft fur,
and being at a distant, adore its glory,
a dreamy, fairy, flurry castle.

Tossed I my head, “I’m not for that”.

The pothole road in mid I knew
would lead me to be a tragedian,
and walk amidst the public, 
   tossing….
a bomb, 
or with a tripod camera,
and wait till the enemy comes.
Challenging and difficult it might be,
yet I thought a tragedian I should be,
a social critic, a fighter against injustice.

That’s history. That was my dream. 
-   a living, breathing daydream  - 
     I believe now 
     a poet
has no bounds, no limits, no constraints,
no fixed identities. 

In this compact
box of world, I want to be slippery.
Slippery I will be as a fish, and will slip ……
and … shift through identities,
shuttle between poetic selves,
to live, just to survive, avoiding briers,
for my wounds still bleed … still ache.

* A 1st Place* in the following contest (judged on Dec. 30, 2020)

Dec. 17, 2020
Your Advice To The Youth Poetry Contest 
Contest sponsor: Edward Ibeh
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