By Chidozie Okonkwo

Better

I could do it better —teach you how to undo small things that take up big parts. —swim back to the land of origins, and become the ideal plot in the emotional narrative of the gods. We will dream dreams and take flights —of ecstasy and of glee. We will meditate in the sunlight and by the magic caves. What will you be doing tonight? Let us run to the breadth of Olympus, catching bliss. There we will become things growing metaphors in God's face. The myth of the ages, and the envy of Aphrodite's failed affair with Adonis. Then we will become another thing, something priceless. a whole new different emotion, the real depth of what humans feel when they are so close to true love. We would be unattainable. It doesn't have a name yet. If you give me your hand and I hold…