Shallow, etcetera

if i am going to hell,
i would love to move on terms

and conditions that I wrote
for me, and me alone.

i do not mean to label
any man or any woman

i only beg to not be forced
to listen to what i do not

want to listen to or do
things that my heart does not agree to.

it is true indeed,
a child who pays no heed

to elders would end a laughing stock
i am already one,

especially to the elders
nobody should bother me any further.

of course, I’m going through hell
you are not doing anything about that.

Victor Oyedele