Please Dear Ebony, <br />Answer me these questions, I pray; <br /> <br />Do you miss me a little; lying on the shores of your heart, <br />Alone with the sullen tides that breaks upon your way? <br />You were here by the beach, like the sands in my hand, <br />Within my clinched grasp yet you still slipped away. <br /> <br />Do you hear the broken voice of the cracking coconut? <br />Or percieve the sweet fragrance of the trampled roses? <br />Do you not feel for the field watered by drought? <br />Yet you still left me there, when harmattan approaches. <br /> <br />You left me at night, alone with the crescent moon. <br />In the coldest hour, the birds dare not sing but shiver. <br />The sky is filled with stars but lonesome I am, <br />Lonesome like a Hyacinth devoid of water. <br /> <br />Autumn's hands have made nature to shed tears <br />Of fallen leaves and fragments of heart broken. <br />The harmattan's wind did blow us far apart, <br />Far from the tree we once held but now forgotten. <br /> <br />I seek the truth in each of your lies, <br />The pains and the tears, both to remind me of you. <br />The roses on my bed and the apple of my eyes, <br />Both were once red but now are blue. <br /> <br />I hold in my hands the seeds of your betrayal, <br />The dreams we both shared are now but withered roses. <br />Mine is a lily among your pitiless thorns, <br />The garden of my heart is green with unseen bruises. <br /> <br />I savor the lemon after-taste of your love, <br />And feel its bite, its strong vinegar flavour. <br />Every fruits has its own distinct taste, <br />The sweetness of yours has left me a taste sour. <br /> <br />I see you in each of my dreams, in my sweet nightmares, <br />Among the sleeping Mistletoes that beguiles my view. <br />Can you not see that the least movement of the trees, <br />Always brings to me these sad fallen leaves of you.<br /><br />okoye charles<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lines-written-in-heartbreak/
