Love Poetry: SERVITUDE TO PRIDE

by Marvel Godwyn
(Nigeria)

'See,
Our love that once
Like an inferno burnt,
Now,like an ember smolders,
And beyond kindle by pride has become.
Our psyches by pride wreathed, in loneliness
Our hearts writhe and our mirth into myth retracts.

Without,
A serene heart we feign.
But within, our hearts by dusk of pride
Blinded, for each other grope and to the
Melody of the dirge of our fissured
Heart pride spitefully dance.

For
A faded memory of you
All night i carouse yet for
Your caress i yearn.
Photographs of you and I, my roses
To you, as a sedative into the mire you threw.
But, how come out of your heart you could
Not throw me?

The
Trees of pride, it is palpable,
A fertile soil in our psyches had found,
And under the arbor of their leafy boughs,
Etiolated our hearts berth and for
Sunshine seek.'


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