SCARS FROM WITHIN

By Shalom-Paul Onadipe

I feel my heart slitting into parts

these diverse emotional scars

not knowing where my heart lies,

I feel like a lost art!

not knowing who I want to

express my love to anymore

I feel like a total stranger

when it comes to love

somedays I'm an expert

other days I'm just a big bag of flaws.

I'm probably lying to myself

about being genuinely loved

because love is not accidental

love is dynamic

it comes and goes,

leaving stories which becomes memories,

memories which may turn to scars..

we are all slaves to love at one point

we try to please one and others

greedy and insatiable as we are

we all try to give a little extra when it comes to love

a strange feeling which has come to stay within us

of happiness complimenting pain and sorrow.

what is love without the pain and hurt?

too much love but no one to give it to

do we ever give enough?

February, 2022.

In this piece, the author asks crucial questions all through, none so much than at the end: do we ever give enough? Indeed, do we ever love enough?

Thank you, Paul.

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