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.
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Author:
Fumilayo bayo (Pseudonym) (
Offline) - Published: July 2nd, 2025 00:41
- Comment from author about the poem: I want my freedom, I am nobody's own.
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Comments2
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.
Yeah, we are indeed nobody's own.
Thanks for reading.
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
Thank you dear.
You are very welcome
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