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Student @ Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi
Bauchi, Nigeria
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Scattered Truth
<p>I don't know...</p><p>A shake</p><p>A shiver...</p><p>Then a quake</p><p><br/></p><p>_Split_</p><p><br/></p><p>Fragments pour forth</p><p>Bits and pieces </p><p>Granular</p><p>Each of them holds truth</p><p>Reflection of aspects</p><p>Who I am</p><p>Who I was</p><p>Who I will be</p><p>Scattered in a desert of abstraction </p><p>Without detail</p><p>Without resolution</p><p><img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/12192451-TZABTOTM-7.jpg"/></p><p>I comb every dune</p><p>Every valley</p><p>Every leaf</p><p>What I seek is me</p><p>Form and function </p><p>The who </p><p>The what</p><p>The why</p><p>Identity </p><p>Certainty</p><p>They have scattered</p><p>Meager glimmers in a vast expanse</p><p>Each grain a question</p><p>Each grain an answer</p><p>Each grain a mask</p><p><img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/il_570xN.6140414238_qw7m.jpg"/></p><p>Woven from truth</p><p>Woven from deception </p><p>I cannot tell one from the other</p><p>I collect them like sparkling fireflies</p><p>Each one offers identity </p><p>A line that suggests form</p><p>Decides function </p><p><br/></p><p>Yet...</p><p>The voices stutter with doubt</p><p>Never sure</p><p>Never certain </p><p>Offering twice as much questions as answers</p><p>For truth wobbles on crutches</p><p><img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/man-portrait-hand-drawing-line-art-illustration_525160-8513.jpg"/></p><p>Perhaps the collective will paint the picture of truth</p><p>Pieces aligning in a glorious mosaic</p><p>All I need to do is collect the scattered pieces</p><p>Innumerable </p><p>Ceaselessly dividing</p><p>Continuously fabricating uncertainty </p><p>Perhaps... One day</p><p>When Infinity becomes accessible </p><p>I shall gather them all</p><p>Perhaps then I will know who I am</p>
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