A Glimpse From The Window Of The Past Poem by Aki Nnamdi

I look back at a hurting path of history...
Just to catch a view from the window of time...
And all I hear are distinct and distant cries of pain and agony.
Slowly streaming into my eyes are the red rays of the east...
on a morose and moody morning...
when water and whips dined on my flesh...
and again, pain started afresh.
I hear the distinct sound of my tears as it falls to the ground...
I hear my crystal voice loudly scream to the heavens: 'Lord save me! '
I look again and again...
glaring and gazing...
Walking slowly and steadily on that memory lane...
And I see beyond the facade of a delighted peripheral,
Pieces of a broken heart shattered by love so brutal.
I recall the times when he took my hands in his...
looked straight into my eyes with ease...
and uttered the words: 'I love you dearly.'
Those times when love felt like the warmth of a blanket on an ice-cold morning...
and scented like a piece of candy on a bed of roses.
I was at the apex of ecstasy...
The pinnacle of jollity...
And the peak of gaiety.
But with just two words,
that pierced like two sharp swords...
he dropped me from that pinnacle of love,
and I fell down hard on the floor.
And the pieces of my mending heart shattered once again.
Never tell a lady ITS OVER else she'll go insane.
Now here I am, musing and brooding over the past...
Forgetting the brilliant present and the sunlit future...
And looking up at the sky to scream: 'victory at last! '
Forgetting the immaculate virtues within me...
and that I am a woman phenomenally...
Stealing away my hapiness...
And opening the door to sadness...
Forgetting that I am a woman with patrician beauty...
A woman with charm and allure peculiar only to me.
From deep down the recesses of my soul,
I will draw up these virtues hidden in a hole.
I will wash down these painful memories in my heart...
And I will shut down this shaded WINDOW OF THE PAST!