Thursday, December 22, 2011

POEM: I carry thee on my scrawny back

I carry thee on my scrawny back.

Her prematurely aborted dreams,

Her skyscraping expectations,

Her heart quaking disappointments,

Her blood secreting sacrifices

Her ocean filling buckets of tears.

A decade protracted excursion up Golgotha

And we have yet to reach the crucifix.

Clawing herself into my soul and mind,

Pleading for Veronica, a mere reverberation

Bawling at my creator in retaliation.

One misstep shall eternally disintegrate me

One clash against vocation and she dies.

One seraph’s voice and organ of faith,

One purpose of my subsistence

One billion taxing strides before me lay.

Far-off the mahogany wood looms

Calling my name, bearing her face.

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