Prayer Of A Sinking Soul Poem by ObiGod Chidi CC

You called me out
Upon an ocean's mouth,
Where if my virtue fail
No one will come for bail.
I stepped out of the idle boat,
Walked where nothing floats;
You asked me to stand,
Make the waters my land,
Eyes off the wave that blows,
Feet on the tide that flows
And I did the impossible
For I saw the invisible,
I was glad for a while
And bragged for a mile
Till the ground start sinking
My faith started thinking.


I sipped the tip of power,
Slipped as a tripping tower,
Falling to rise no more,
Calling with no metaphor
The succour of your name,
Lo! My ego drowns in shame
My dreams floats downwards
When its path leads upwards
Against the antagonizing tide,
Now I seek my guts in hide.
Out of the berry of the fish
I call you to hold my hand
More oxygen for the foolish
Raise me again to stand.


© 25-04-2018