MY VOICE LOST FOREVER

I waited for the words

Impaled daily by your sword

Like an eagle knocked off its nest

By a father brain washed with regret

I gave you dew and ash

Only you wanted cash

Like a miracle you wanted to free me

Only it bounced back like Frisbee

Ricocheting and causing fractures

Making me ignore your many failures

I tasted all your bile

Held tight by my loving crocodile

Spinning your favourite prey

As I held on and prayed

My smile now bloated and pale

I wish I was weak

Then my stupidity would make sense

For my strength is past tense

Like a viper dodging the scorching sand

As the evening coughed out Ice crystals

I tire from your gaze

Now suicidal and lame

Still love what you once were

A laughing hyena

Bloated with stolen joys

Now riddled and broken with hernia

I whisper finally at the mountain peak

Sprouting loud echoes till I could not speak

Drowned by the fear of living without you near

For sorrows sliced me open

My voice lost forever

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  ***Busola Elegbede***