"you can stop visiting my dreams now" by Ọpéyemí Ọlájùwọ́n

you can stop visiting my dreams now

for Corinth,

when I look into spaces

to fill up a void that is more vacant than a bullet fleshed into your skull—

or when I Iook at the words wall on the left

& see the portrait of a boy hanging within the spaces of letters—

or when you come visiting in those dreams

where your face is starting to fade into a dull echo—

I want to ask you to find your arm

& attach it to your torso—

I want to ask you to find your leg

& attach it to your hips—

instead I find myself grabbing my sheets

in sheer despair to hold you close—

until all i can do is scream our dreams

into oblivion—

Ọpéyemí Ọlájùwọ́n is a Nigerian and was born in Abeokuta, Ogun state. She is also a law student of the University of Ibadan. She loves writing poems and novellas. When she is not writing a poem or rereading Sherlock Holmes again. She is teaching, editing a book, enjoying the peace that comes with nature or perhaps if there is time she is visiting Shakespeare through the doors of his books. You can find some of her works on Instagram; nyxiasinclair