Library, Small for Us

by Gerry Sikazwe / November 5th, 2017

We flood others spilling
Every space exhausted,
No room for another
Exam time when library ought to be fortress
Many of us from it get exiled to the lawn
Because the library is small for us
Because the library is small for us
Under the burning-biting sun, we are cast
Our skins scorching, our eyes soring (sickening)
Ants crawling up into clothes, disturbing!
Dust rising as it pleases, shoved to the ground we sit to study
Because the library is small for us
Because the library is small for us

Gerry Sikazwe is currently a student at the University of Zambia studying for a Bachelors degree in Adult Education. He manages his poetry page on Facebook, and his poems have been featured on Africanwriter.com and Mshikamano.com Read other articles by Gerry.

This article was posted on Sunday, November 5th, 2017 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.