Every time we throw our legs in the air
You me gum body
Laying side by side
Our silence etch words into the atmosphere
We giggle & start
Tick talking positions off our bucket list
Look at us
Me. You. timeless
Pure mix of fire & Ice
One for hotness the
Other to welcome the warmth of the heat
We are the reason numbers become formless
The reason twelve is always morning
Why nine and six are hungry permutations
Why one is the explosive drive
& zero the orgasmic truce
The clock is just a jealous wand rotating ticking &
Moving against our pace
Or how else would you explain dinner time
When we just broke fast on our bellies
Roseline Mgbodichinma is a Nigerian poet, writer, and blogger. In 2018, she won the audience’s favourite award powered by Union Bank and Okadabooks for her short story, Silence that spoke. Her poem, The Giant, was published in the Poets in Nigeria (PIN) 2019 Anthology, and we were superheroes (another poem) was selected by Theresa Lola, the young people’s laureate for London to be featured in the “Say your peace campaign.” She occasionally writes on medium, but most of her works can be found on her blog at www.mgbodichi.com.