Lessons From Auntie Chidinma

A poem by Stephen Emmanuel Ogboh

Photo by author of friend Angel Chinedu

beware of
drowning in
people’s problems —

that sea
is deep &
invites storms

my auntie says
there’s
just a little worry

to go around
& there’s a
thick but

invisible line between
sacrifice &
suicide.

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For more by this author, try:

You Will Not Know Until She Tells You

A Woman’s Troubles