THAT DAY, I FELL IN LOVE
I fell in love on that day.
A delightful day in the waiting room,
This winsome lass led me
Into a world of wishful thinking, where
Beggars have begun to buy rides.
What a sweet smile she wore!
The cadence of her voice caressed my ears,
The same way a west wind
Glides over the green grasses in an open field.
I felt her pain of a prickly needle,
And the sprouting seed of love in my soul.
About the Poet
Victor Akhere is a medical student of the University of Benin. He was once long listed among the Best 85 students for the Nigerian Students’ Poetry Prize. He writes poems during his leisure.
Blessing Obiahu is a law graduate from Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. When she’s not battling First Draft Syndrome, she’s writing (anything and everything). Her work has been featured in the 2021 Nigerian Students’ Poetry Prize anthology, Black but Famous (now Kaassa), Loana Press, Akpata Magazine, Challenging the Writers, the Umuofia Books and Arts Festival Anthology, and is forthcoming in the Anarchist Fictions Journal. Her love for books inspired her to create D’LitReview, a literary website. Blessing freelances as a content specialist and squeezes in time to cook and listen to music, whether she’s actually free or not.
Chinonso Marymartin Okoabu