The Picture on the Mantlepiece

Chika Unigwe


The three of us

Clothed in normalcy

Framed by rich oak wood

With hues of red

Red

I should have known

When I met you

That you were

A bull waiting to snap

Red

The colour of danger

I have always been warned

But I saw you

In hues of brown

Red

What was it

That set you off?

Pulled us all

To a dinner with the devil.

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