Within you
Verdant hills tease a thunderous waterfall beneath the canopy
of a potent sky.
A sun, the shade of mischief
Pours a warm morning on steep mountain paths –
Dare I climb?
To the heady songs
Of a different thousand birds, a thousand different leaves to
hug peace words
whose lips root soul-deep
at the querulous waters
where there’s full fruit.
Toyin Adewale-Gabriel
Hurs & Ryder 