I No Send You and Yours

If you dey in love, I no like you

This una love story for make sense

But both of una no sabi English

Na why you resort to empty hailing

Talmabout 'Prince of my heart'

Olodo, the human heart is divided

But in chambers not kingdoms

No words could make better imagery of a heart in love than: chambers, cuspids (bi-&-tri-cuspid valves) ...

But you no know about that one

Him self post you with 'she makes my heart beat'

Una just dey berate cardiologists.

Let's even say each chamber stands for a kingdom

Is he the prince of four kingdoms like Nollywood producers would title their films?

Or he is the prince of one chamber?

If so, who then rules the rest?

Shey I been tell you say one day you go expose yourself?

This una outing for oppress me

But your boyfriend no sabi dress

Why he go wear red shirt on top skintight red jeans come siddon on top red chair for restaurant wey them decorate with red lights?

He dey run apprentice for native doctor?

This una love life for hungry me

But I sabi whom your boyfriend dey date

And e no be you

Una dey do tiktok video with ring light

But he no fit put a ring on it

As you sleep on that decorated room

Know say person no like you and yours

For me, anybody wey dey in love no wise

Chukwuma Henry Onyekachi is a final year student pharmacist at the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He has a flair for poetry as much as he enjoys reading novels, anthologies, and short stories whenever he is not studying mechanisms and classes of drugs.

His works of poetry and fiction have been featured in a few anthologies, the most recent being the Providus Bank Poetry Café Anthology titled 'Journeys'.