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The captives

Held as captives in a ship
Chains binding us together 
Hunger, but we could not starve
Tears but we could not cry.

We were warriors of our land 
Children of the soil
May the gods forbid that our ancestors would look us in shame.

And so together,
We ambushed our captors
And sank the ship

It was better to die 
Than be slaves in a foreign land.

Copyright © Chelsea Chinweokwu | Year Posted 2025



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Soup kitchen

The soup kitchen wasn't far from home 
Or school 
After school was dismissed I would run down to mama's soup kitchen 
And have a bowl of soup and chicken legs all to myself 
Mama said I was too small for wings or laps

Years have passed since I saw mama
I work in a local restaurant now 
Sometimes even at my late twenties 
I wished to taste that soup again
And eat those chicken legs
But mama was six feet gone below the earth.

So I left for home on a weekend 

But the soup kitchen was no longer there.
There stood a local church and people singing
Where mama once owned a kitchen.
So I turned back and went home.

Copyright © Chelsea Chinweokwu | Year Posted 2025

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Death's wings

The only time I was ever happy
Was when we,
Grandma and I sang songs of old times
It made me feel so safe and yes,
I believed nothing could take the pleasure away.

But one night,
On a very cold night
Her body lay as white as a corpse
Yes
That was what it was

She was covered by deaths cold wings
Protected from ever breathing life again 

And just like that those memories were lost
Because death's wings took her away.

Copyright © Chelsea Chinweokwu | Year Posted 2025


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