A Promise To a Thuja (2) (For Femi)
Like a jelly fish, I quake
It came as the biggest blow
With a volcanic outburst
That almost broke my heart into ashes
I sneeze while shivering
My mouth aches, as my ribs quiver
Do I hear you well ma?
I echoed within and aloud at once
It was 12.48am of a May 19th, 2007
“I am fed up” she threw caution into the wind
It is the signal to end a seven years sojourn
With my once loving Thuja.
Still my ears far off my mind
Was this happening to me I soliloquy?
Reality dawn on me instantly
It was the end of a reign of my Arkhaggelos
My Thuja, of the beautiful
Lovely and lively African tree
Whom I promised to hold tighter
Without withering, until we roll in the alter
Indeed, she just altered the alter promise
I wept from my very within
Tears of which was not seen outside
It was a dream shattered
Suddenly all plans seems scattered
As I refused to be flattered
By my kinsmen’s on the said matter
What a cruel world, I ponder
Why someone would shut a door of a house
We had lived for seven years
Without blinking an eye for love
I think aloud as her voice re-echoes in my mind
“Sorry, I am fed up with everything”
I took solace within
No cause advanced for shutting the door
May be, she can’t wait no more
May be, she had my love replaced in her heart
May be and may be . . .
Still wandering in a manger of no love.
I saw the owl smiling
But still looking ugly
She pretended as If all was well
At last, the owl warbled in a fusty voice
Here comes the echo of the evil omen
On this day 19th May,2007
I grudgingly took up the gauntlet
As I close the book of my dottings
My promise to Thuja wane with fury
Alayande Stephen T.
2.45am
19th May, 2007
My personal experience, indeed, a true life story.
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