Sex talk? Sex talk.

Human beings are very inquisitive by nature. I watched a movie where children within the age bracket of 6-10 were enlightened about sex. They literally freaked out; most of them wanted to know. With the prevalence of illegal sexapades  in our world today,  I dare ask,  when is the right time to teach our children or better still talk to them about sex? When js the right age for sex education?

Out

Take me out.
Out of my skin;
Out of my body;
Out of my mind.

Let me beg,
Beg for you,
Beg for more,
Make me beg.

What you want,
That I want.
What I need,
That you know;
And that you give.

To hold and to love,
That I do not know;
That you do not promise.
Not just at the moment.

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Make me sleep

make me sleep
with this body of yours
made for sleep

use this body of yours
take me deep
swallow me all till it's yours

make me reap
the labour fruit of yours
when you leap

even in this dreamy furze
I will keep
taking sensuous tours

I will neap
at your nips in our amours
as you weep

with this body of yours
we will heap
oil-less, mine and yours
asleep

-Ogochukwu Umeadi

Living Death

Death is the miracle.
A human's body is designed to survive against the stiffest odds,  his cells to repair and regenerate themselves.
 

 His body merges effortlessly into its surroundings for protection,  and the very atmosphere, the air, is food to his cells. It takes the most extreme kind of violence to kill us, and of course old age. It is not life that is miraculous, it is death.
-Mamo
An excerpt from Helen Habila's Measuring Time.