On the darkest nights
The nights when crickets feared to “stridulate.”
Nights when the moon hid it’s face in the clouds.
The nights when frog feared to croak because of the darkness!
I always sat at the same spot
The Rooftop
Up the water tank
Block E
Multimedia University hostels

It would take me almost a minute up the ladder,
That’s alot of time and distance to climb a ladder!

Sometimes I would stand up on the tank,
Close my eyes
Hands stretched across
Breathe in then out
It turned out to be the best feeling ever to relieve issues in my head

Some days it would be moony and silent
On other nights
It would be dark and noisy
The Noisy nights meant comrades & premier league in the Dhall
Or comrades and Rugby League
However on fridays it was comrades and 10/10 with the wild Willis Raburu
Wabebeee!!

I liked the nights of darkness and silence
On such nights
The noise was me,
Me,
Me hanging my legs from the water tank,
Hands pocket my hoodie,
Earphones
__loud mode of course
It was always my favorite song playing
Jealous by Labrinth
And I would always sing along my best line
“I wished you,
best of,
all this world could give,
And I told you,
When you left me,
There’s nothing to forgive,
But I always thought you’d come back,
Tell me,
All you found was,
Heartbreaks and mysteries,
It’s hard for me to say,
Am jealous of the way,
You are happy without me.

I still sing along when that song plays
It’s indeed a chronometer to my lovelife.