The fires that could not consume us
Made our bones metals
This is how boys are forged into men
The world is for tungsten hearts
Men who dare their beast in the face
And carry their mountains in baskets
The world is for those who dance
In gatherings of hurricanes
And still survive its suffocation.
Fubaraibi Benstowe hails from Bonny Kingdom, Rivers State Nigeria, He attended the Niger Delta University in Bayelsa State, where he obtained a degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering. His poetry has been published in Praxis magazine, Afripoet.com, African crayon, Nigeria/South-Korea Poetry anthology, Mariner ANA Bayelsa literary Magazine and other publications. In 2014 he was a guest poet at the Ake Art and Book Festival in Abeokuta, Ogun State, was first runner up in the Eriata Eribhabor Poetry competition and a top ten finalist in the Africa-Wide BN Poetry Award based in Uganda in 2014. Furthermore, Fubaraibi is a recipient of the certificate of excellence from the Girl Child Creativity Concept of Zimbabwe in collaboration with the Society of Young Nigerian Writers (2013). He continues to write and explore his creativity in diverse forms.
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