Soft Life Prayer
Shogo Olalekan Uthman, United States
Lagos is filled with generator noise, danfo horns, and heavy rain.
I kneel under a faint lamp, softly begging God:
After all this struggle,
Abeg let soft life find me.
Shogo Olalekan Uthman is a poet and writer from Nigeria. He's a graduate of M.Sc. (Ed.) Administration and Management of Human Kinetics and Sports.The author of the poetry book “Finding Myself” and the forthcoming poetry collection “A Man's Life”. His works have appeared or forthcoming in Interrobanglit, Navy pen magazine and elsewhere. He believes in the body of work "And still I rise" by Maya Angelou. He allows his imagination to run wild and thoughts take flight. He's either editing, reading or writing.