GOD SEEMS DISTANT


Humans are close
But cannot understand 
and this place of a leader
I want no more.
The price is too steep,
the depths too wide
God seems distant,
my pain is all I hear.

BIO:

Abasiama Udom is a polymathic writer and poet, she writes from Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. Her works have been published in Kalahari Review, Imspired, The Sandy River Review, Rigorous Magazine and elsewhere. She is constantly chasing new adventures but appreciates the constancy of food, music, books, family, sleep, and football in her life. She is on instagram abasiama.udom