Hi Tom,
Thanks for your poetry corner. I am delighted. I write poetry some times and here is one that I wrote several years ago about my first love. Let me know what you think.
idogE
1976,
That was the year.
I never could forget that song – “Sleepy Dawn”
But they say “Women and music must never be dated”
Yet I forget.
We were like Christmas and April.
So close, yet so far away
And I remember that radiant smile
Longer than a Pentecostal Hallelujah and
The magic moments we shared
A rose and her vase like Poetry.
Such a rare delight!
And my love came down
Heavier, than July showers
I remembered the birds and the bees
But times do change
And like the one wrong choice of a
Multiple-choice question,
A lone pronoun “I” was abandoned,
Dangling, like a misplaced modifier -
An elegant portrait of a jilted lover.
The birds sang the ballad
The wind the Dirge
And the shy drizzle mourned the demise of love.
And on her tombstone
An eloquent reminder – a fitting epitaph
An “ I shall never forget you,”idogE.
But here where the journey ends
I shall sit unfinished like an abandoned silhouette.
And along this rigid path of love
A sad trail of hurts,
Indigent signposts in this vicious tripartite
Between love,
deciet
And
betrayal.
© Austin Akalanze, 2007
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