EVERYTHING FADES, CHOICE DOESN’T
x.
For all the days home didn’t feel like home, and all the days you needed a home;
When escaping, a man forgets everything that went right and wrong, and holds on to the belief that now is all that matters.
ix.
Now is filled with anxiety and fear, and sorrow. Mostly sorrow. Your mind struggles to hold onto the memories you created with this person before they left again.
They say grief is blind; love opens its sight.
v.
Life is a series of choices and fate, effects and destiny. You have unprotected sex so you'll get pregnant. Or not. You laugh, cry, blame yourself. Say you were smart, say you were not. You could do better. You can't.
When everything fades away, choice remains. To do, or not do. It's easy; not always.
iii.
The day you died before you died, your mother called you a thief before asking if you want Coke or Fanta. "I'm going out o. Wetin make I buy come? Coke abi Fanta?"
You're alive in all of your alternate universes except this, because death kills a champion once.
i.
I love you.
ii.
Love is the hardest emotion. It asks, and asks, and takes, leaving you with nothing.
But I love you.
o.
I love you, mummy.
