To You, For You, With You
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Move Me You move me, shift my equilibrium like weights on a scale you tip the balance and upturn my spirit. Like stray hands in crowds you scatter my senses like wind in loose weave chaotic and free, you move me like a riotous people lobbying for change, taking action against oppressors because things cannot always stay the same. You move me like waves shake ships that dare to slice their stillness. Live Beethoven’s 5th symphony, Michelangelo’s David and Othello’s murderous love you move me like the wise words of my father, the comforting embraces of my mother and the enviable knowledge of an often distance brother move me you do, like displaced families trying to find homes, like refugee’s and emigree’s you move me like men posing as prophets trying to part chaste thighs like the red sea convincingly. You move me like childhood memories and the innocence of youth. Like unashamed displays of humanity you move me like humility. In a world polluted with pride you, undoubtedly move me.
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More than just a self-indulgent body of work, To You For You With you is a heartfelt collection of poetry. Honestly but sporadically written during periods of heightened emotion over the course of a decade, it is a cathartic anthology offering insight into a pensive and perceptive mind. “A glimpse of a life so unassumingly potent, is what To You For You With You lays before us, like an open offering of almost spiritual proportions - as the realities of life itself are explored – not as fixed entities – but as wholly new experiences of love, pain, the discovery of self and even the musical rhythm of emotion that accompanies it all. It is a collection of a true poetic journey that Assumpta sweetly makes to, for and with us.” - Lola Akindele, Author and Poet
About the Author
After graduating from Coventry University with an LLB (hons) degree and working in a Solicitor’s firm, Assumpta Ozua – the self-confessed ‘optimistic realist’, respectfully turned down her training contract. She left Law to pursue her passion for all things poetry and prose and studied a Master’s degree in Creative and Professional Writing at Brunel University. Since completing her Master’s, Assumpta has worked as a creative copy writer and fact editor for a multinational e-commerce, while continuing to freelance and work on personal projects. She writes from a place of heightened emotion and seeks to evoke similar sentiments to all who should read her words. Featuring poems written in early adolescence, over the past decade, To You For You With You offers an insight into her heart, mind, life experiences and observations.