I am nobody's Funmi

Funmiwrites

‎I Am Nobody’s Funmi

‎I am nobody's Funmi.

‎I won’t be the one—

‎Not the dream in your arms,

‎Not the echo of your want.

‎I am nobody’s Funmi.

‎Not even my birth root

‎Can lay claim to me.

‎I won’t be tied beneath

‎Your soaked armpit of desire.

‎I am nobody’s Funmi.

‎You can’t have me.

‎You won’t keep me.

‎I am not a name for your leash—

‎I own myself.

‎I am nobody’s Funmi.

‎I’m not your Funmi cares—

‎I feel my own way.

‎Not your Funmi writes—

‎These are my words, my wounds, my wins.

‎I am nobody’s Funmi.

‎Don’t try to shape my pen,

‎Or carve your will on my blank pages.

‎I am not your story to edit.

‎I am nobody’s Funmi.

‎Why do you call me yours?

‎Because my pictures

‎Pull saliva from your hungry mouth?

‎Because my pen reshapes

‎Your jagged thoughts?

‎Do my pages

‎Cover your shapeless body?

‎Does my ink

‎Wash the stench of your lies?

‎Then ask yourself—

‎Is that love? Or need? Or theft?

‎Nobody owns me—

‎Not even the roots that bore me.

‎I am my own ink.

‎I write in my name.

‎I bleed on my own pages.

‎Don’t try to dilute my voice,

‎Or flood my story with your water.

‎I am nobody’s Funmi.

‎I am mine.

  • Author: Fumilayo bayo (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: July 2nd, 2025 00:41
  • Comment from author about the poem: I want my freedom, I am nobody's own.
  • Category: Unclassified
  • Views: 8
  • Users favorite of this poem: Poetic Licence, Funmiwrites
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  • sorenbarrett

    Nicely written this topic is close to heart. No one belongs to anyone else, slavery is an ugly word a defunct concept that should not be endured. Well stated in this poem we continue to call ourselves as somebodies or them as ours but this is just a privative holdover from the past.

    • Funmiwrites

      Yeah, we are indeed nobody's own.
      Thanks for reading.

    • Poetic Licence

      This is a very good write , that no one has a claim on us and we belong to no one, everyone has the write to be free and themselves, nicely expressed and written



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