Caged

Poetry
Written By Yewande Adebowale

Caged within walls and borders

of self-imposed limits

condescendingly intolerant of unlike peoples 

like a soul stricken by megalomania

caged within walls of own design

by aesthetic paint of hypocrisy

garnished with supremist ethos

unyielding to change

chained by hands and feet

to the gallows of dogma

judge-jury-executioner

the deadly trio

hate spread against

socio-cultural differences

peace eludes the polity

as cultures clash in a bloody war

uncage the soul from (e)motions of hate

bridge boundaries and cross-borders

breaking erected walls and gates

for harmony is a beautiful thing

About the author

Yewande Adebowale is a Nigerian lawyer, storyteller, poet and author. She has authored two poem collections — ‘A tale of being, of green and of ing..’ (2019) and Voices: A collection of poems that tell stories’ (2016). Her poems have appeared in Visual Verse, Afritondo, Trampset, and Poemify.

Yewande Adebowale

Yewande Adebowale is a Nigerian lawyer, storyteller, poet and author of two collections of Poems: A tale of being, of green and of ing..’ (2019) and Voices: A collection of poems that tell stories (2016).

Her works carve a niche of poetic storytelling assuming a prose-like form of creative expression inspired by her African roots. Winner of the Fidelity Bank prize for creative writing, her works are inspired by the realities of life and living, in a poetic and philosophical fashion.

She lives in and writes from the city of Lagos, Nigeria.

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