'The Anatomy of Reality: A Refugee’s dilemma' by Ahmad Abdullah

Humanity is not so complex; it has a consistent simplistic narrative.

The Anatomy of Reality: A Refugee’s dilemma by Ahmad Abdullah

I am human like you foremost

With dreams and needs

We were both born

And we will both die.

We will both be afflicted by hunger

Whether you have a silver spoon

Or I a wooden spoon

We will have cried

At one point in our lives

As much as geography may never permit

For our paths to cross

We will both find peace

As long as you see my skin

Or my gender

Not as a disease

If we excise the profane

From the language of our existence

We are a mixture of mud and water

Intoxicated in the opium of reality

Perhaps the day shall arrive

That you shall seek refuge from your fears

Within the expanse of my rigidness

Perhaps I may seek beyond

What nature gifts me of succor

Within the rigidity of your generosity

The grave is within the earth

Like the heart is within the chest

And someday nature will deprive you

I of you

Or you of I

Ahmad Abdullah, AKA Ahmad Holderness is a medic and a writer who is about to be published. He is the director of Home Of Book foundations that seek to help Nigerian youths to read and write better. His writings can be viewed at and you can follow him on instagram at @home_of _books_foundation

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