FROM THE CONNECT CENTRES II
TEACH ME | Mar’yam Thaoban
Teach Me
How to love and live life
Like it is meant to be lived.
Teach me how to call your name
In a way that reaches the depth of your heart.
Please teach me
How to hold you tight
Without crushing the tenderness
Of your touch
Or squeezing the silkiness of your feel
Pray teach me how
To sing, to pray, to dance
And to beat the drums
In joyous language
Only you understand.
Dear, teach me how
To make me feel like
Every woman deserves to feel
Without fleeing from
Hand to hand or Land to seas.
I beg you to teach me
How to hold that pen
And scribble those words
That tear at man’s heart
In sweet misery and honest treachery.
Teach me how
To speak to
The hearts of man
In manners that
Would leave man wanting.
Please teach me
To let go of those memories
Warm Moments
And timeless times
Before I forsake my sanity.
Mar’yam Thaoban is an award-winning poet and a passionate writer. She’s also a dedicated member of PIN Yaba Connect Center and a member of the Parliament of Poets, Unilag. She’s presently a student in the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos.