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“Daa’s Withered Rose” © 2008 Udeaku Chikezie

SAP GREEN AND A WILTED ROSE

November 20, 2014

I am living an adage…

I am becoming your mirror image

Staring every day at the wasted me

The one I desperately don’t want to be

Listen…I have music for you

Oh no… It is a song long overdue

Lost unwittingly in no man’s land

As life had dealt me a mean hand

I look, and I find in you a new mother

One unable to curb the urge to smother

Crisscross…Our paths were predestined

Snap! Snap!!… Your steps have suddenly hastened!

Snuffing the life out of me

Finally, I unwillingly see

Manipulation and castigation

Your attempt to get attention

Wake up…Our day can be better

Sorry…you are too busy to linger

Your joy for me slowly turns…

Your heart in resentment burns

Tying me to a cord too strong

Hooking me with claws… so wrong

Harmony…I think your friend is my friend

Busted…In your eyes, I am the fiend

Knowing now, no shadow of a doubt

This struggle is no temporary bout

For my heart’s survival, I must run

Faster than a bullet from a gun

Tick tock…My time with you is spent

Sob…Your heart remains stoically bent

Fighting yet living daily in fear

Learning pain … my heart cannot bear

Your death grip on your wasted years

Glimpses of crystal-frozen tears

Hear me…your pain I desire to assuage

Too bad…I speak a foreign language

Fear that someday, soon

I will know the merciless torture

Of being another walking shell

The replica of your present hell

Beacon…From afar, I see the shore

Shocks …You hope to buy more chains

Daily, I wash my torn nets…

Drying them the darker it gets

Any moment, I will be gone

In freedom for my time is done

© 2011 Udeaku Chikezie  ( March 11, 2011 - Brooklyn)

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