By Emma Ejoh

To live at your fullest
You must first
Die at your lowest.
I wake up each morning
With a heavy heart
And a tainted soul
One driven by guilt.
I am frightened
By the actions
Decisions
Made from a drenched heart.
A heart soaked in blood and whiskey
So I can drown my sorrows
At the abyss of undesirous thoughts.
How do I tell the woman
Who conceived me against all odds
That I chose me?
I chose to save myself
Than give light to the life
I bore inside me.
Complete opposites
She and I are.
I defied nature
Surrendered to my apprehension
The dark cloud struck
Until I could not feel whole
Anymore.
My demons became reality
One I found solace in.
Perishing in my own blood
Didn't phase me.
Our destinies should never have aligned
So
a part of me died that sunny day.
Whatever bloomed
Withered.
No more fountain of tears
As that dried up too.
Now
I am free
Or so I thought.

Emma Ejoh is a Nigerian writer amongst other things. Emma lives in Lagos, Nigeria. She studied International Relations at Caleb University, Lagos, Nigeria.
When she's not writing, she is definitely creating one way or another. She enjoys art in all forms, and has a particular interest in culinary arts as well as script writing.
She hopes to connect with people through words and to help express that which has been silenced. As an only child to a single mother, writing was a way for her voice to be heard, and it still is.
Emma is currently working on a book of poetry, and looks forward to sharing it with the world in hopes that it would connect to the hidden reality of life as we know it.
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