Betrayal Poem by Victor Okechukwu Anyaegbuna

You caused me great pains, pains so intense
The bastard in me danced in the rains;
You betrayed my last surviving hope;
Around my small neck, you placed a rope
You pulled skyward to tighten the noose
And set me into the wild, flying loose.
A vicious dagger you pulled in the dark
And mindlessly stabbed me deep in the back.
My second heart bled and fouled my spirit
I slumped, tumbled, and sweated in the heat.

A fraction of my small life, I spent
To retrieve yours that mystery had rent.
The blood in my veins flowed inside you
The skills in my spirit availed you.
I gave to you my twenty years fortune
To let me play out my heart’s aching tune.
I cared and gave you good and wise counsel
I dared to let you, your fate to pencil
But, like a mosquito you sucked me dry
And dumped me in the chilling cold to die.
You stung me like a scorpion
And squeezed me like a python
You buried your fangs in me like a big cat
And shredded papers of my life like a rat.

Let justice still rise in the clouds
And once more power my zeal
In the neophyte’s tender moulds
To assuage my weeping soul
And start my life and future again
That my failures might spare all my gain,
As time will spare me afresh,
Hurt and hide a reeking flash.

And this race in the widening curl
Of smiling and faltering Sweet Scoundrel.
Will soon avail utmost blind faith
In life’s unpredictable path
Powered by such determined fate
Of sweet deviltry and tort