Wild Child

By Stephen Emmanuel Ogboh

you’ve been waiting waiting for tomorrow but it can’t come for today is not pregnant today is still young

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you’ve been chasing chasing headless shadows but they themselves don’t know where to go you’re following ghosts ghosts that follow those who don’t know who to follow

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you are lost, wild child yes, I know you are lost but don’t follow me oh don’t you follow me for am also lost

Stephen Emmanuel Ogboh is a Nigerian poet whose work has appeared in Tuck, Matador Review, Down in the Dirt, Chelsea Review, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter @Stephenecdotes. For more by Stephen and others, follow Fourth Wave.