A RIDE INTO THE PALETTE OF MEMORIES 
After reading Ojo Olumide Emmanuel 

Once upon a dream,

I journeyed through the history of me as a page. 

Inside, there’s a whirlwind teaching a boy theories of hell. 

There’s a naked hell glowing from bone-to-skin skin-to-ashes

& ashes into everything the fire named.

I bent down to morph the ashes into bowl of sand. 

Suddenly, Dad’s picture emerged like dust on the pulpit of wind

With a broken image still blurring on the album.

In the album, his sins are mine,

the last duplicate of his sins winged through 

my palms to sky. You see, this body

Has become a temple of forgiveness.

I forgive him. I do, I believe I do.

Outside the album, he’s vomiting all the apologies 

Out of boredom.

Adamu Muhammad Ja’agi (AMJ D’POET) is a young Nigerian poet, debater, public speaker, and a spoken word artist from Minna, the center city of Niger state. Ja’agi is a young voice who is passionate about art and it’s magic at storytelling. He has represented the state including in a project presentation nationwide. Ja’agi is a student of father O’Connell Science college, Minna