Dead Love Poem by Stanley Oguh

Dead Love



Each tear has it's own story to tell,
of an aching pain, of a life of hell.
Silent nights when the fires blaze,
and we sit around it in a circle
ready to listen how he felt.
He begins with essence of dead
loving heart,
beating a rhythm of desire for such
prolonged time.
An unheard scream felt only by the
whispering stars,
and imbued like gems in words of
poetry and rhyme.
Thus becomes a song of affection
and yearning,
while the angel he fell for has
remained unaware.
A passion so strong that's kept the
flame forever burning,
in words unspoken an oath he kept
to always be there.
Forever oblivious she remains to his
love so strong,
and death comes to take him now
from this world.
His final few minutes yet requests
a moment to write a song,
so that she may truly feel his
affections in his words.
Death grants his wish as even he is
sympathetic to his pain,
to his longing and eternal desire
that he has since kept.
As he writes the last word, the
spectre blows out the flame,
and extracts his soul gently as
cleared promise of debt.
She finds the song on paper
drenched in love and blood,
tears flow like streams from her
eyes as her heart breaks.
How can she not have known of
such lingering love,
but now it's too late to change the
doomed lover's fate.
She drowns herself in tears in a
corner engulfed by darkness,
questioning all she's done to be
worthy of love like this.
She stares at her reflection with
emptiness thinking she is heartless,
the tears continue leaking for in her
heart is a wish.
Determined to be showered by his
love, she finds a cliff's edge,
and she closes her eyes with
whispers of promise and oath.
'Dear beloved, I am coming as I
cannot bear this burden and regret,
I am coming to your arms as you
always wished in your soul'
She takes one last breath and
proceeds with suicidal step,
and now she is soaring from great
heights to find death.
He is waiting at the bottom so that
he may ease her regret,
so before she lands, he extracts
her last loveless breath.
Her soul in the clouds now
wandering without a guide,
searching with a crying heart for
whom she had died.
He's by heavens gate with
welcoming tears in his eyes,
and she runs towards him with love
in her eyes.
Now finally in the warmth of each
other's lonely arms,
claiming their love for one another
with great heart.
He said, ' my beloved, I would have
kept you from all harm'
and her reply, ' I know. It is now
you can start from all that is dark.'
Love is something that lingers even
after death,
it shall unite those who lost
themselves in life.
It is more than rhyming words sung
with poetic breath,
it is a reason people continue to live
and some want to die.

Saturday, September 17, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: pain
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Stanley Oguh

Stanley Oguh

Lagos, nigeria
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