WHAT YOU NEVER KNEW

A mocking dirge to a chauvinist

When you left,
You did think that her serene world will rupture;
That the tick tock of her clock will stop ticking;
Perhaps her fertile soil will freeze and dry up
Like a shrivelled, broken harmattan yam;
That her smooth glistening skin will blister

You did think
That she will cease to smile, and lose her dimple
Because you ve left with her reason to;
That her eyes will be swollen with forlorn tears
Like a young lad beaten up by a big bully;
That she will misstep and tumble down the staircase

You did hope
That her joy will sag and seep out
Like billowing smoke escaping into dry air;
You hoped that she will never find one like you
That her spirit will shrink and deflate
And tears will be her daily template

You did pray
That she would keep hoping for your return;
Her hunger for you would make her go crazy;
That she keeps calling your name in her dreams
Like she did every other night before you left
That like the Biafra cause, she is a foregone past

But you just realised;
That you are a bad dream she had woken up from;
Your leaving has been a fervent prayer point;
That you are like a once sweet, now soured
Egusi soup in a lazy wife's abandoned kitchen
That you were not really that hot!

That awkward moment
You wish against wish that its all but a dream.

Reviews

[Miss Cherry]

i particularly love this because it is funny how when one leaves his/her lover, there is this secret hope they have that they don't move on but dwell in the past of what was and the future of what would have been. The only thing constant in life is change. Move on. really great Tobi; once again your figure of speech and choice of words are amazing, especially the simile.

[Chimee Adioha]

African. I loved every bit