FRAGMENTS by Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan

To cement the fragment of life

is to stitch each piece with a thread of

a soulful poem,

using a needle made from the nightfall of hopes,

dreams, visions and fantasies.

We are not whole;

we are broken circles in a jaunt 

to find suitable fragments that will fill our chasms.

If yearns always come true, 

I'd feed myself from birth 

with the pap and spoon from Solomon's Palace,

but how do you wear oversized prospect,

when your waist sags to the floor of sunken faith?

How do you even convince yourself

to seep the belief that time holds the best, 

when you journey in an anti-clockwise momentum? 

Because even when you believed

that the clue to all situations lies in the alter,

some of your problems chose to wear shells 

that resisted the healings from the alter. 

Or why do the pale head of your little Kambili

refused to heed to the 'cast & bind' from the clergy?

And when you forget, always remember that:

when our heart fell into our eyes, 

we hearted as many as our eyes captured, 

but when their eyes fell into their hearts, 

they captured only those they hearted, 

leaving most of us in fragments.

But how will they not love you less

when you are a tree bearing fruits for the neighborhood,

while your root dies of hunger? 

Sometimes, we choose to be the visitors in our own body, 

a prisoner, a slave in our own enclave.

Until we start seeing wholeness in our emptiness

& commence the harvest of hope in our lives, 

we will keep filling the void in others with our vital pieces.

The greatest lesson to learn while living is that:

life is a soulful poem filled with energetic hope

that can only be tapped through closer discernment.

Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan is a budding writer who writes from the soul about himself, his life and the ebbing African culture. He is a penultimate medical Laboratory science student, who hails from Ebonyi State, Nigeria. He was the winner of 2018 FUNAI CREW Literary Contest. He has lots of unpublished artworks to his credit. His works have been published in the Quills, Ace World, SprinNG, Inverse Journal, and has also contributed in lots of many anthologies.