Fonuoha:
I dreamt of a flock
How I’d watch them graze
But I’m always out of luck
Like a mirage my dreams erase.

Oiroegbu:
For some of the flock are mirages
And their mirages, people in my life
Those who cast their nets before my bridges
And dream to reap where they sowed strife.

Fonuoha:

How then do I reach them?
They are only but shadows
My weird thoughts I thus blame
I’ve lost faith in all those.

Oiroegbu:

Well trouble not the strange past
In the queer struggle of life
One must learn to cost trust
And know that it must with time thrive.

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Commentary:

There are people in your life who are there for what they can get. Some are just watching to see where your struggles will lead you. I collaborated with my brother and friend to capture this in this piece. The flock represents people who are in our lives for their benefit and disappointments, illusions of how much we should have expected from the flock.