"Saltwater" by Mojekwu Ifeanyichukwu Nzube

Saltwater, O Saltwater!

Why do you walk through my eyes so?

Trickle down, drip train

Tell me what ails my heart this way

Did I knock on Fortune's door

and she refused to unlock?

Did I ride on the Steeds of Time

to fall off into quicksand and brine?

Did I dance with the Sisters of Fate

and cut my own thread by mistake?

Did Love walk out the door again

with my heart and mind dumped in the drain?

Run on! Run on!

Tell all! Tell all!

Saltwater, O Saltwater!

Wash my ache, make me lighter.

Mojekwu Ifeanyichukwu Nzube is a 300-level student of the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos.