ISOLATION by SAMUEL JUNIOR IRUSOTA

I console myself 

    by saying this too shall pass 

Everything happens for a reason 

   There is a time to live and a time to die.

 I do not know when 

but I say it anyway ___

 I say it  with my two hands raised to the sky 

I  say it with utmost humility

Here , 

a boy prays to God at Night ___

Come God he said :

Save  the world  and  make it whole again.

SAMUEL JUNIOR IRUSOTA is a multiple award winning Nigerian Poet, author and lawyer. He is the author of a Boy's Body Is War. He is also the author of two chapbooks entitled the day God died and innocent murderers. He won the Wakoso Poetry Contest in March 2020. He won the Clash of Pens Poetry Contest in 2019. He was a joint Winner of the Poets in Nigeria Food Poetry Contest in 2018. He was Shortlisted for the Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize in 2019 and the ZI Prize for Literature in 2019. He was Shortlisted for the Poetically Written Prose Contest in 2018 and the Nigerian students Poetry Prize in 2018. His works have appeared in Merak magazine , Journal Nine, Tush magazine , Praxis magazine, inverse Journal, Indian periodical and else where. He believes that poetry is a tool with which we can change the world. He writes from Edo State Nigeria.