/ after you fluttered away / like a leaf leaving its origin / I realized the color of which grief is painted / red with edges of black / memories keep paying visits / how we couldn’t resist the inviting smell of the mould / making us wine and dine with sea creatures / greasing our skins to conceal our secrets / but eyeballs put on a reddish garment / inviting koboko into mother’s hands / how we sit together / to watch woods hugging in unison / illuminating our skin / giving us the real definition of Africa / our backs making contact with the sand / and our arms serve as pillow / as we count countless stars / making countless wishes / how we sit at water bank / throwing pebbles into the flowing ocean / giving them a new start / you dreamt of building a diamond castle / little did I know it was castle of bubble / your wish to fly on plane / turns a wish to fly on a fading feather / you want to buy thousand wrappers for mama / but you gave the brink of her lone wrapper / infinite salty liquor to swig / your plan was to purchase a pristine Jeep for Papa / but he is drowning in his tears / staring at the obsolete bicycle / that wraps your memories together / the moon cracked / into equal part of same age / creating a darkness that sets us apart / in the light of my own world / I stand / beckoning on you / but the darkness between us / painted my eyes with the colour of the earth / my heart had broken along with the moon / when I realized the other me had faded away / like a dress worn for a century / we came together in the pool of blood / but alone as dust / I shall return / for our joint heavenly scenarios / had been shattered / after your departure.
