I am living an adage…
I am becoming your mirror image
Staring every day at the wasted me
The one I desperately don’t want to be
Listen…I have music for you
Oh no… It is a song long overdue
Lost unwittingly in no man’s land
As life had dealt me a mean hand
I look, and I find in you a new mother
One unable to curb the urge to smother
Crisscross…Our paths were predestined
Snap! Snap!!… Your steps have suddenly hastened!
Snuffing the life out of me
Finally, I unwillingly see
Manipulation and castigation
Your attempt to get attention
Wake up…Our day can be better
Sorry…you are too busy to linger
Your joy for me slowly turns…
Your heart in resentment burns
Tying me to a cord too strong
Hooking me with claws… so wrong
Harmony…I think your friend is my friend
Busted…In your eyes, I am the fiend
Knowing now, no shadow of a doubt
This struggle is no temporary bout
For my heart’s survival, I must run
Faster than a bullet from a gun
Tick tock…My time with you is spent
Sob…Your heart remains stoically bent
Fighting yet living daily in fear
Learning pain … my heart cannot bear
Your death grip on your wasted years
Glimpses of crystal-frozen tears
Hear me…your pain I desire to assuage
Too bad…I speak a foreign language
Fear that someday, soon
I will know the merciless torture
Of being another walking shell
The replica of your present hell
Beacon…From afar, I see the shore
Shocks …You hope to buy more chains
Daily, I wash my torn nets…
Drying them the darker it gets
Any moment, I will be gone
In freedom for my time is done
© 2011 Udeaku Chikezie ( March 11, 2011 - Brooklyn)