Darker dawns, late afternoons
Old pictures of memories I hate to keep
Torments I find myself in - still
The very urge to fight, I’ve lost
Like a tossed coin with both sides loss
My soul is but wandering several miles away
Mind drifting in similar shades unknown
I’m beat. Damn! I’m alone and troubled
Who can read between these lines to save me?
Who understands enough to tend for me?
I am losing my sanity practicing ‘sanity’
A war of parallel odds do I contest,
with all uncertainty - an unpleasant quest!
I am unsure as I carve this note,
that I may find resolve,
in what life paints next on its canvas;
A darker image - spells doom
A lost cause - frustrates life
Tarnished integrity - threatens self
An embittered soul – heightens reality
I write these words to communicate a message
As an empty canvas tells no future,
So will it be vague to whom it’s not intended
For even the bearer comprehends it not
Merely to carry out the will of the communicator
I hope it doesn’t take too long to decipher
As pleasant words mean zilch to a soul - gone.
Atsu Dogbey
TDL.
