Books and characters

On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous: Lan

each day is a page.
filling the book of memory
that is man’s whole life.

make me young again
teach me to live without the shells,
live without the fear

that sound may be sound,
and my heart would race for something
not just anything

take these pages off me
take this madness of memory
make me young again.

Victor Oyedele