Expelled
Adjekawen A. Jeremiah 1998 (Delta State, Nigeria)
You must be cold beyond the warmth of my cuddles,
You must be worried beyond the comfort of my fondles,
You must be sad, and here I'm not to make you cheer;
You must be lonely there, and I'm as twice as lonely here.
I can feel our heart, it no longer wag Its tail;
I can feel the trickles of your tears on my cheeks, though you're miles away;
I can see you curled up at a corner, like a widow grieving the ordeal.
I know you miss your soul as much as I miss my body.
How does it feel to be torn away from yourself?
should we merge again, or should I keep roaming all by myself?
How does it feel entrapped beyond the border?
Should I be consoled by your peace, or should I bother?
You were still warm when me you expelled;
They shook your arm, but you were stiff;
I tried to hold on, but I could no longer hold a thing.
I was still watching when your eyes closed forever,
And we can no longer be together.
I was once your better mate,
Now you have your chamber maid,
Forever and always on duty,
Dancing to the silent music.
Those charming eyes of ours in their sockets,
Plead the dancers to eat not out of their pockets.
Where are those beautiful curls,
That once hung jealously over our shoulders, blond,
Our nose that once stood like a fortress to the east,
Our lips, so succulent that every lip would want to kiss;
That fair skin we spent half of our lifetime nursing with pride?
Where is the beauty we so pride?
Your thoughts came to me in my solitary
And up they woke me in the dead of this night.
You inquired if I'd nailed you to my past under the lonely tree
And if I'd replaced your candlestand with a lamp alight.
I wish I really could, this torment;
This obstinate part of me, I lament.
Lying face up, I stare into this quiet nothingness,
Striving to grab on to my thoughts in this dreaded darkness.
My limbs are frozen,
My will is broken,
My eyes won't close,
I can't say no!
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Written on November 10, 2022
Submitted by jerrylov322 on December 29, 2022
Modified by jerrylov322 on January 26, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,893 |
Words | 415 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
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