Poems
2024: Diary of Rotten Faith (A Living Carcass)
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Michael Oluwaseun, also known as Shawn, is a Nigerian poet and pen artist whose works explores existentialism, nature, psychology, and spirituality through symbolism. Using the ballpoint pen, he embraces its demand for patience and translation of experiences into visual language.
October 6, 20261 min read7 views
"MY HEART STILL EATS ITSELF"
Before I go to bed,
I dig out my eyes of cynicism.
By morning,
I stitch the empty sockets shut
before your eyes notice
this isn't him.
Every impulse
is another knife I call medicine.
Every regretful relapse,
another organ
I place carefully
inside the wrong body
so the world won't see
what keeps rotting.
Something still twitches.
It refuses to die.
I hate it, especially when I think you lie.
But I think it's the only part that still believes in love, that still believes I'm not another stray everyone thinks you'll eventually shove.
And I'm terrified that one day my face will split open and all you'll find is an animal I've been calling survival.
Shawn©
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Shawn the poetMichael Oluwaseun, also known as Shawn, is a Nigerian poet and pen artist whose works explores existentialism, nature, psychology, and spirituality through symbolism. Using the ballpoint pen, he embraces its demand for patience and translation of experiences into visual language.
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