Welcome Home! Poem by Almedia Knight-Oliver

I try to love you less but love loves you more
Wanted to leave you then, but love said no and
kept you in my sight-what's a woman to do with
all the going on days and nights…go inside her head
to find out? But mind told her to shut up and mind her
Business and don't give up and roll with the flow and
not sin!
This evokes the old folks back home trying their level best to
Win God's favor and get out of their mess and into heaven.
Before you my dear, my love lived with him in the underworld.
I was left wandering in the night with only the stars guiding light
and the west wind hearing me out and the dead leaves being
chewed by my feet and each step slowed down my heart beat.
Still, I kept a smile on my face though withered like the parched
leaves under my feet.
But now love is alive and happy at home within.
Dear, you're forever welcomed in my home, to share
my cluttered room and the dark one, you can help me
shed some light …then both can find our way out and into
the world's sun light…

By
Almedia Knight-Oliver
January 8,2017