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Find a Love

Pleasant Nneoma Stephen

Find a love

in the crooked woods where

traps await feet, and snakes in ambush lie.

Find a love that tells you not to die.


Find a love

in funereal places of grave chiming,

where gloominess anticipates the snatching of your soul.

Find a love that tells you not to die.


Find a love 

in far-stretching horizons where

the mountain greets the sky,

and presents you as a delicate offering;

even in your secret chamber where

evanescent susurrations put you to sleep.

Find a love that tells you not to die. Pleasant Nneoma Stephen is a poet, student, and writing coach. She is an ardent lover of doodles, rainfall, and African mythology. Pleasant is a Gold Award recipient of the Senior Category of the Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition 2023. Her work has appeared/is forthcoming in Decolonial Passage, Vagabond City Lit, Squawk Back, and elsewhere. Pleasant substacks @pleasantnstephen as a writer of Weekend's Poets.

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