Love Under Digital Surveillance

jerry KWATCHEY
@kwatcheyjerry128608
2 hours ago

#poetry
🎙️ BABA PROCEED II — Love Under Digital Surveillance

Night quiet,
crickets hold meeting outside.
I whisper soft: “Baba proceed…”

Then voice shoot from nowhere like WhatsApp notification of doom:

> “BABA WHAT ??”



She appear for doorway, smile sharp like cutlass of jealousy.

> “So we don start again ehn?
Every night ‘Baba proceed’—
You wan proceed into singlehood abi?”



I try explain,
fan stop rotation, even bulb blink surrender.
She fold arm, lean for wall like Wi-Fi router of judgement:

> “Who be this Baba you dey proceed with at midnight — Pastor? Prophet? Programmer?”



I weak.
She sigh,

> “You better proceed go sleep before I proceed to reset your password.”



Since that day I dey whisper my joy on silent mode.

> Baba proceed — in low volume.