the year is 2021,
first yr in college, February.
twenty year old Adiki is sitting quietly in the library eating dried bread and an apple
sobbing hard
wanting to call her family but too afraid they’ll be sad,
wondering why people here are so mean
hating the system and
scared she’ll turn out like most of them.
i want to send the people i have now to her
dressed in marvels clothing
oh to let her know that “i” am happy,healthy, at peace, and that everything is brighter now and
that i am not easily influenced, that i aces my exams, that it’s calm now, that i never stopped making videos, and that i’m doing well all by God’s grace.
-dec 2024.