FAMILY TIES
Under same battlement Without retirement, With resentments Sprayed on rents.
The killing, The preaching Taxes the junction Of unplanned nation.
Since inception it stows, Patiently with its bows, Yet nothing to show On the toe.
Understanding you miss, My dear bro' and sis'. Six seize the creed When the bang pleads.
Yet all here in one bed lay, Yelling on the way. Insider or outsider, Record to consider.
Same father, Different mother. Name unifies; Character signifies.
Collective struggle, Factional tussle, Breeding a puzzle In the lone jungle.
When on color terrain, Passion to retain. The foes turn friends On a memorable to defend.
While again away, The blood flows away. Soccer does it all Here within this wall.
Tosin writes under the name Ajekunrin of Africa — poems, plays, and essays about home, distance, and what gets left behind.
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