POEM: WILD ROSE

#Wild Rose

Who will listen to my heart

When it beats as you are not here?

Who indeed will hear it and laugh so alike?

I am torn apart with thoughts of you

As you live across the rivers of distance

 

   
How worthless life has been in this wasteland

void of your smile,tears and laughter 

Who will look upon my  countenance to

offer arms of genuine solace.

I weep increasingly in the sadness of my loss

When the stars became planets you were there

And until the rivers sinks to be seas

My love for you will never cease

As I am lost amidst the extremes of choices

From the tone of your voice I linger

From the throbbing sight of your face I melt

From your love that is truly nature I cower

Yet I do not know what the future holds

If only they knew what poetry

drips out of your lips

You will be mine to own for eternity

In this little snap of moments so

Immense I will call to mind the smell 

of your skin Black woman

Just as our ears were deaf to ridicule

I do indeed call you *WildRose*

I will look up your face

In joy And love you like

you were my addiction

Who will watch over me as I fall asleep?

By Esperanza Ibim Obene

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