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31.8.21

Impromptu poetry

On the Afrobloggers WhatsApp group, Lutgard Musiime Akiiki gave a one-liner - "I am burning in my own skin" - and asked poets to do their thing, so I gave it a shot ... 

  
I am burning in my own skin

 I can’t possibly hold this in - 

 Much longer! 

 It gets stronger -

 With each passing moment.


It threatens to rip me apart

But I don’t know how to start

Letting the world know. 

How do I show

What could possibly be?


I’ll feed  the passion quietly

Let it burn on internally.

Soon it will be

Greater than me

And then, the world will burn!