And I have borne the cursed hands of nightA Poem by Opeyemi Jide-OjoAnd I have borne the cursed hands of night. This is the sorrow, and of
the solemn voices that cry out in the mid night plea, Please, and save me from
myself- the voices kill me so, Reminding me ever so
slightly of those vows I had vowed to make And not keep, vows I made
to the voices in the night, And pleasure they, they
keep haunting, hunting, hurting. The tears are hot,
invisible, like the searing knife that runs through The corner of my eye as I
strain to catch the drift of what has just run by Me, spells of emptiness
circle gradually, seductively calling, And I return to the very
vow I had vowed not to keep, And in not keeping the
vow, I'm sorry but I've kept it- sorry Lord. So I run, I run from the
mirrors of my own eye as I struggle to avoid the roaring Captions that brightly
point me out to me-THIS IS MY FAILURE, As I struggle yet once
more through the warm hands of night, And I wake to find my
hands had done what they had vowed to not do, They'd killed me once
more. Now I scream as the night
approaches, save me from the dark- I'm as a frightened child
tortured with the memories of night's abuse, It runs its calloused
hands up and down my frame, Taking me in complete
control, giving me rapturous realities, Then I wake at the end of
the episode, and I stink with the regret of The death I have brought
on me one more night. And I have borne the
cursed hands of night, as I'm betrothed to the very Evil I stood up against,
knight of the night; in soundless noise I'm embraced By my lover; I run to him
in joyous ecstasy as a child will run to a lover. Night runs wild with my
imagination, tight passions make me sweat sweet still, Taking me to heights I've
long dreamed of in the depravity of my solitude- I have borne the cursed
hands of night and birthed its child- Son of my Lust, And the blade comes down
on my neck: I undeserve the peacefulness of night, And my night is ruled by
the vow I had vowed to not keep. Truth unbecomes me, and I
become the vile I'm to live with. So speak ye not. Hold your
peace. Let the cursed hands of night guide me Once more, bring me to the
forbidden bliss I beg to forget. Remind me the blessedness
of the depraved existence I'm blessed with. Bid me answer your
questions, answer mine, as we lock in unholy embrace, Tangled in the affect of
our own deceptions, as I'm led by the cursed hands. Night is my pleasure
blanket. Solitude is free, the deception is quiet, And I ride once more the
waves of riotous passions that war with my mind- Suffer me not to live please;
to die is a more gloried state, Death to the night and its
passions: I will wake in the
morning, when the cursed hands of night break apart. Or perhaps they break me
apart in the dreams of their nonexistences Fused to life in the
breath I give them; ticket to my own death Call it my misery, as I
sail through the night Drunk on the satisfaction
it gives me, the night just became a person But I don't know which
one; I'll stick with it. So it pleases me to note
that it pleases the night to note that we're both Pleased by our mutual
dangers- it calls me its danger; it's killed me over- Now we can hardly tell
who's alive and who's not, The fabric of our lives-
which happens to be my life- torn to bits by the Wild oats we sow every
night- remember night is now a person. So once again speak ye
not, and try not to save me- please I don't want to Be saved; leave me drunken
with the foolishness of my nightly foolishness. Perhaps I'll get wiser
when night chooses to let me be; Daydream or nightmare? Or
we might just die both of us to end our glowing Relationship. But if you
must save me come quickly while the night is young, When it's lust for blood
is not yet risen to full strength, while it persuades, Bids me come to its arms
to start the night's love affair, Please come quickly and
save me from one more night. Save me from one more
night. Save me from one more night. And that's all I ask from the morning, save me from one more night © 2013 Opeyemi Jide-Ojo |
AuthorOpeyemi Jide-OjoAbuja, Lagos, NigeriaAboutI am a poet, dancer and choreographer I enjoy weaving strands of fantasy with strands of reality to see what beautiful creations come from it. I could get dark sometimes (many times actually); matter .. more..Writing
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