"UNSTABLE", A Poem By Adedeji Raphael — Pawners Paper

Its a romantic poem that emphasizes in the sacrifices that have been made in regards to love, those appreciated and those rebutted.

 

 

Three years back,

Ours was a flame kindled

with the mythic firewoods of doubts

burning low to be vulnerable

to the shades of shallow darkness,

Was a flame lit by the wanderlust emotions

of a lone warrior craving to caress the scarred cold face of war

veiled down by the vine stretches of peace

from the outskirt of a silent shy world

Two years back,

Ours was a story of torn pages

which held the jewel of undaunted memories

enclosed in the layers of a jealous time,

Of memories when our names were reincarnated into food epithet

to twist our lungs and widen our smiles,

Of memories when subjects haunted our dreams in form of a fierce ghostly teacher,

Of memories written by a pen with a same mind

which the hand naively discarded

A year back,

Ours{mine} was a torn drum beaten by a hand

hoping to sound to the lyrics dancing in your mind,

Ours{mine} was the love canto encased in roses

gifted to a maiden who lives by the tongues of many men,

Ours{mine} was a flawed song composed by a heart

to a heart whose ears admired perfect bliss,

Present year,

Ours is a game of chess

set ceremoniously at the end

of two masters clinging to clumsy past

raided by aristocratic kings and queens

mentored through the brimstone eyes of bishops

over stagnant pawns sacrificed to the starved gods

of a barbaric lands, who milk hope of intimacy

to a land savaged by the icy touches of solitude

Present day,

Ours is a broken glass shattered for a part~my part to be set free.

Written by: Adedeji Raphael

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