Years gone by since we fell apart
Every sunrise awakes nostalgia
fraught with our checkered love episodes
where we blinded our love’s
sights.
Every sunset beckons nightmares
where I battle with
phantasmagoria
of our old love adventures.
Every day brings a clear picture
of faraway we are, and
irreconcilable nemeses we have
become.
Like a landloper I wander love’s
desert
Miles I travel in search of
fellowship
Wheel of imagination rides me on a
tide of sensation
The tedium of my hunt brings on
déjà vu
I see you running in circles
Your feminine aura is still
flamboyant
yet your aesthesia is flaccid.
Embers of broken love still burn
in your heart
Your poverty of affection is
copious
Under your peacock wings
my refuge dangles between the wind
and the water
In your eyes I see my vision
trickle
like dry leaves drift in
harmattan.
When you speak, your tongue is as
smooth as eggshell
yet it spits blood as befitted a war-party.
Your lips are as comforting as
almond oil
yet your kisses pierce deeply
like a sword.
When you smile, underneath your
teeth lies
the pains you camouflage in your
smiles
I see your heart in your words.
The ghost of lost love still
follows me around
I take your memories with me
wherever I go
Every night awakes a
lonely-hearts feeling in my dream
I sleep with your memories in my
heart.
Every day I
live like a child deprived of mother’s love
I have become emaciated in spirit
But I will remain in this hopeful
lane.
This poem was featured in Issue 2 of Heart & Mind Zine, February (Winter) 2016.
You can read via http://www.heartandmindzine.com/poetry---entries/fallen-apart-but-memories-live
