Tales of Eden

For you, I'll grieve silently. The same way I kept my feelings clutched in my hands while you were here baring your chest open even though I knew how hard that was for you. I'll do it with my head hung low so your ghost doesn't sit on top of my dreams wondering what all the fuss is about. why now? When all you are is a fragrance above the clouds. Why now? When you are just another breath in the wind and your hands can no longer reach the depths of my soul to squeeze out the apprehension that shook my bones and my trust in men like you. I'll shed these silent tears and in this overflow, say the words that never left my lips when your eyes searched mine: I love you too .  They say we speak some words too late. But late doesn't lessen the intent and their truth. Except late has so much weight. Late can crush a single lung with a sigh. Tell me again what they said about time. How it makes love less appealing with age. How it beckons an emptiness for every age. The itch

                                                  Silent  Acquiescence He clamps the Bible in his hands and recites the vows. I toss in the air a shaking left hand and I look over my shoulder as I say I believe. It comes out as a question instead. This brown puddle should cleanse me of my grim.  The man of God is wabbly from my weight , the  might of my iniquity  , the same lake waters  which these trees have drank to their own death, take me whole as I am sinful and half repentant and I am born again. I drain my ears of the muck that licked its way inside and the graveyard in my womb, rattles with  incipient bones.  oh ancient of days   with hair of white, a hallow and a veil, Thy kingdom come... trains of blue of frothing immortality, Thy will be done, not our glory and shame untoward.   Give us this day, bones that do not crumble, fill with patience, the empty bellies of our younglings,   and with a breath of life refill our lungs ,withered by days of toil. Embalm

The Sound of a teardrop Midnight seeps through a crack and morphs into dawn. Flowers will drink of the morning dew and wither in this lopsided pattern of faded blues.  Seasons are fleeting from weddings and wakes to wedding veils turned into funeral shrouds. Ebbing heavenwards. Where is hope? I am trying to tell a tale that shifts like a gale.I am more afraid of living than I am of dying. Blood to the earth.Tears,black and graveyards.Song to the skies.Dew,moon and sunlight.The night bedecked with stars lays in his slumber in broken silence.Perhaps the dead have a place of their own where they are locked up and tamed.Perhaps they dance  and sing in their own haze .   For   what is death but   black and blue     with red and   plenty of empty greys In this atmosphere of annihilation,I am an artist with a heavy heart   stuck with an empty canvas. I want to paint my paternal grandmother’s soul and my   maternal grandfather’s laughter. I want to paint his r

Marred Bliss  Photo by Jun Perez on Pinterest   Light and shadow. Master of the art,you know how to play this game .Toss a coin, no head or tail. It balanced on its edge swirling in endless circles. It’s not a win. You are just good with schemes. The sky lights up. The world is grey .It’s going to rain tonight. The sky is on fire .The lake has hushed her song. Hear the thunder? You look up and sigh. Sometimes, the world is sad too.   Birds fold their wings in silent muse, Omnipotent orb takes its last sip from the lake's silver fuse, Trees adapt and bend, drink from the wind's wrath, Nature dwindling, fading lush and hues of grey.... You stick out your tongue and taste the first raindrops. You said when you were younger, you bathed in its waters. That you stood under the gutter and shivered .The rain water stung your skin as she, the other mum that life offered you scrubbed your face with soap and stone while your step brothers and siste

AUBADE    Song of the morning. Winter bliss. The things that were. Won’t ever be. The songs we sang have dried up in our throats. The melodies morphed back into pain. A thousand clouds, just a star or two. Beneath the leafless tree, a manic brain on a moonless sky. Flashing satin phantoms in the night. Whispers in the trees. Gentle laps on the stream. In the darkness, eyes become ears; blinking in the infinite emptiness of nocturnal and thoughts, wholesome darkness that can be touched. Darkness that enshrouds. I’ll rip a little bit of it and wear its black as a crown for pain. The rest I shall stuff in the voids of my soul to make me feel whole. A tear then two. Torrents from a clouded soul. Rushing breath and muffled heaves.Oh, that I had the patience of the Biblical Ayub. Oh, that this night was subtle then I wouldn’t be lying out here in the cold with my hair full of dust. I wouldn't be here sprawled on the ground with a knife on my left hand and

Echoes of yesterday They were lovers in the dark, hands groping in the emptiness for something solid to hold. They were the same chords of the guitar playing different songs; Melancholy and nostalgia The dying embers of a once fierce flame. The last raindrop on sandy soil. Their rhyme was  a water droplet on cold asphalt unfelt, forlorn, without cognizance.  February and July .Abandoned like crayons of a child at play. They were twin roaches looking for a home in the heart of darkness, delving deep into the black mess. Getting lost in the harrowing hues.Tumbling.Falling.Breaking.They were a whirlwind which gathered momentum and gyrated to a great crescendo collecting everything on its path, spewing dust clouding the whole town with wonder but upon daylight, the god of new beginnings, everyone dusted their apparels  the  wind now just a memory.Forgotten. She was July.Stoic.She was all of July stars, its sun, moon and freeze, mirth and song. A half-moon hidden by the