The Deserted Patient Poem by Adeosun Olamide

My sweet Flavio
What you have done
This heart you break
Frail won’t heal

Beloved mother
What I have done
I gave Flavio my heart
And body too lay

Says he'd die without
And wakefulness absent
But now wouldn't a see
Flavio tenders abjure

Priest calls shame
Friends steer indignity
The boys calls rag,
Flavio mocks me-

And my swell, my chagrin
As eyes peck like thorns
I walk away
And walk way alone

My young Flavio
What he does
All wish him son
A prodigy they say

My young Flavio
Mends my heart
He takes regret
I pine his presence

My young Flavio
What you do
This heart you break
Shall not heal