Abdulhafiz Muhammad Aboki is an undergraduate of the National Open University in Nigeria. At 28, his academic path leads him to Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution. Aside from being a reader, he considers himself an unquenchable learner. But Abdulhafiz also has interest in literature, especially poetry. This was the very reason he started writing poem in 2020.
She left me, yesterday
Earlier than I thought
I really thought it would last
A few more days
Five or more days
Or at least a day
Just enough to make me say
"I've been in love for a day"
I do not know how you do it
How you find love and keep it
I tried so much but can't do it
The longest I kept one
Was an hour and a bit
Just enough to last the long ride
Back home, on the train, last night
I just suck at this love thing
Now I want to walk away
Far from this land
To the land where love stays
And hold a sign in my hand
That reads, "Please, Love me for a day"
I Am Not Attached
I am not attached to
The world and its fantasies
But I want to live longer
A bit longer than Methuselah
On the Arabian Peninsula
Make a space trip to mars
And dine amongst the stars
I want to have a few billions
Or just half a trillion
Honeymoon on the moon
Morning bath in the pool
I pray death isn't soon
So I spend like a tycoon
A simple life I want
With little possessions
Of the richest resources
Like some tons of gold
A few carats of diamonds
I want to live like the kings
But I am not attached to
The world and its fantasies
Strangers are not
People we never met
A stranger is a lover
You loved yesterday
But woke up today
Hating every memory
Of them in your life
Wishing you could
Put to flames
The tiniest part
Of your brain
That still remembers
Their names