In your absence
the world aches with the loneliness of vacuums,
empty as silence.
Here, only the memories of your presence haunt the vast spaces.
The cold snowy landscapes stretch vast in your absence,
and the winds slice like whispers for the sun’s return,
the sunlight that is the radiance of your smile.
1998
Rotimi Babatunde
Rotimi is the 2012 winner of the prestigious AKO Caine Prize for Literature. He has received fellowships from Ledig House, New York and The MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, among others. He has participated in International Playwriting residency at the Royal Court Theatre, London and is a 2005 Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation guarantee. His play, The Bonfire of the Innocents, commissioned by Riksteatern (Sweden’s National Theatre) was on tour in translation across Sweden. Rotimi Babatunde lives and works in Nigeria.
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