One portentous morn, besmirched augury
Glow’d, twenty summers ere now; o’ injury.
My begetter, aflame with fell fury,
‘Gainst reason; ay! Ire of penury,
With inured heart, takes judgment sans jury.
‘He is bewitched’, goes his claim. Oh lone street!
Streets of Uyo; clamour’d with woes in fleet.
Forsworn there by dad; to not make ends meet,
But by enchanted guidance o’ new helpmeet;
Mum having struck, years gone, Stygian sixth feet.
Lachrymal wantonness o’seven year old;
Brooding brink of solitude do enfold,
Pelting shrill pangs of winter clime so cold
Plays telltale on my skin with stealthy scold.
Was I a changeling? The dice wrongly rolled.
Oh what is life? I grope but for fleet end.
Days plagued and bedeviled with thistle bend,
Nights saunter as they forlornly pretend,
The celestial orbs their choler do send.
Oh death! Thy swift bliss have I come to lend.
The prickly tares of the years ruin me bare,
Shackles of peril stream ‘bout like nightmare,
Abyss of lonesome despair chastes like hare,
Woven dearth, famished bowels; they all glare.
Waking up each day anew makes me scare.
Shall I hark stilly claims of melody
When lips smouldered with acrid agony
And strength and glee cloaked but with perfidy
Hap, echo sorrow-clad tune so sulky?
How well will my ink forswear elegy?
Twenty mute years! Wild years! Denuded years!
My murk brow enshrouded with frore of tears,
My heavy heart bedizened with wild fears
From drear and malefic streets; den of fierce bears,
Where e’ery baneful miasma on faces smears.
Oh mocking years! Feigned truce thy hoax plaything.
Under thee my progress goes teetering ,
Love disrobed and deflowered; mem’ries sting,
Joy ravished and defiled like caught herring.
E’ery season, thy maladies to me spring.
Oh loose years. No, yes! Bedecked with nescient
Wit; endued on head so magnificent
Yet, at e’entide, groans, and though effulgent,
Pillows its thoughts on piteously plangent
Rocks oft girdled with throes briskly ardent.
Drudgeries despoil faith, sport and repose,
Crush evanescent joy like trampled rose,
Slake thirst with dregs o’ dolour, ay, draught of woes!
Warmth and mirth slayed in torrents o’ lurking throes.
Self, self! A shadow perched by diurnal foes.
Mimicry, that of torn-clasped existence.
Puah! Puah! I spit gloom with tongue freighted thence
By blood from languid-clenched teeth. Puah! Puah! Hence
Has fate ‘pon woes makes guile tryst with my sense
That thus pierced, ruined; does but sit on the fence.
What! E’en my ink bends to the knells that toll
A loathsome longueur to before my soul
Which, pierced by the years, its stripes did befoul
Its essence. Lo! I grasp with hiss my bowl
Of murky fate; to gulp till the dice roll.
N/B: The poem is written in a little bit of the Elizabethian English style. Try to digest them as they can't me
I personally think this beautiful poem can be made into stanzas, but if you like it this way, fine. Its exciting and sad to read at some point.
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Great!! poem I am amazing
Interesting bro!
Didn't understand the whole or it.
But nice one as far as I understood.