Fear of the familiar

Ebenezer Olalekan

Ebenezer Olalekan

Monday 19 October 2026

‎An eyesore they made me become,

‎Oh, my eye saw more than I could contain.

‎The pestification of uncertainty...

‎All I tried,

‎The setting aside of unnecessary things,

‎Most I've slid.

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‎Maybe I was too accustomed to the familiar midsts,

‎From time, so different was I, even amidst.

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‎I'm in the midst, but still seeming alone, as in a foggy mist.

‎I was I, who couldn't be understood.

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‎Too free was I,

‎That I was deemed too familiar to the midst.

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‎So fretful I seem to the familiar.

‎So small was I deemed,

‎To my good, they say it would be,

‎But the good I couldn't comprehend.

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‎The evil they overlooked

‎Took the main effect on this soul.

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‎My contributions they see as woe,

‎My words they dim as violations,

‎My actions and corrections they dim as violence and unrelatable.

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‎So ignorant they seem to the priotised,

‎So priotised they seem to the unnecessary.

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‎My standing, now I know.

‎No choice have I but to resolve to the fear of the familiar.