ALEXANDRIA QUARTERLY

MIFUELAYO OJEIFO

CHANCE A RAPPER

Give men a reason to keep on living and they would become demons every season
The prison, the prism, is the chance to be a prisoner
The prisoner, the killer, is a chance to be a fighter
The fighter, the boxer, is a chance to be a warrior
The warrior, the war man, is a chance to be a carrier
The carrier, the pathogen, is a chance to be a viral man
The viral man is a chance to keep the virus going
The virus is a chance to end us all
The end is a chance to start all over
To start all over is a chance to end again
To end again is to born again
The chance is all that matters

Mifuelayo Ojeifo is a Nigerian poet and musician currently studying in the United States.