Home Alone
ascended this morning,
Into an empty bed,
The silence of my room,
My Boudoir dark and cold.
Doctor Wind knocking my windows,
Wild knock, subduing every sound,
Fent gobble, clucks and bleats from my soulmate pen,
Poor creatures, reminding me it passed feeding time.
Phone beeps: Sigh,an alert for yesternight transaction,
Ah, it 8: 30am!!!: in arrears of a routine call to my soulmate,
She must have developed cold feelings, a feeling her call could solve,
But no, it a debt: one of those debt men owe courtesy of masculine nature.
With no intention, I moved into her room,
Her room stood still, exactly the way it was left weeks ago,
Her beddings, bags and furnitures decked all over with dust,
Using my finger, on her side drawer I wrote " Missing you guys: Maria & Itite E. Odey-Agba (jnr)".
About this poem
Premised on my Home Experience: I woke up that morning to the harmattan wind, loneliness, waking up late, not checking on my family, forgetting to go feeding the Goats, Turkey, Rabbits on time and missing my family.
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Submitted by Odeyagba on January 18, 2023
Modified on March 23, 2023
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| Scheme | XABX XXXX XAXC BXXC |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 813 |
| Words | 159 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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