The Sun

 The Sun

by Seun Lari-Williams 

In winter, I watched as the sun barely bothered

to get out of bed in the morning (as though

terribly ill), only to shut its eyes again

not long after.

In summer, I could swear I saw it rise

at just a few minutes past midnight, 

and then relentlessly refuse to go to sleep

at night (like a toddler).

As one whose sub-Saharan skin had only 

ever seen the sun rise and set

really about the same time each day,

I thought to myself:

How drastically different a fundamental fact 

can be to a traveler.

Even you, glorious, ancient sun – 

you, too, have taken a stab at my tiny little bubble.

Seun Lari-Williams was born in 1987. He attended Badagry Grammar School and studied law at the University of Lagos where he served as President of the Law Society. His first anthology Garri for Breakfast was longlisted for the 2017 NLNG Prize for Literature.