To japa is to be free, to seek greener pastures, to find your voice, to encounter the
sunrays of hope, to regain your future, to actualise dreams, to have the world as a
canvas, to become, to breathe again—or the opposite of all these.
In this part of the world, humans loved the divine. If these people don’t see signs and
wonders, they won’t believe. Gaze into their eyes, into those dark globes that hate to see light.
Show them you know their worries—their fears, their dread, their horrors and doubts
SPEARS / THROAT & GRIEF, THE WALKS OF DEATH ON BODIES OF WATER (for my grandmother, Ojuolape) /Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un/
