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Silence Wails

Adjekawen A. Jeremiah

A dose of attention
may cure abandonment
A spoonful of care
may cure loneliness
No medicine can cure
The boredom I feel inside

I watch the pot burn on the fire
I am too weak of will to intervene
As it’s content burn and ooze away
Goes does the content of my head astray
I am bereft of desire in the flares of this world.

Like a wife
cast aside in the silence of the bed
So I am
facing the wall in the darkness of this night
No one to cuddle me
Only sadness by my side, snoring
I stare at nothing in this nothingness

Cry my infant cry
I do not hear it cry
Call the skylark call
I do not hear it call
I only hear silence scream
loudly in my head scream
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Scheme XXXAXX XXBBX XXXXXXA CCDDEE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 669
Words 153
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 6, 5, 7, 6
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Adjekawen A. Jeremiah

Adjekawen Jeremiah Agberia hails from Ughelli south of Delta State, Nigeria. He is currently studying law at the Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The young poet of Uhrobo origin, who started writing poetry at the age of fifteen, is the firstborn son, amongs three brothers, of a single mother. Works of poetry penned by A.A. Jeremiah (his pen name), are mostly centered around love, romance, politics and betrayal; and, a few, on melancholy and nature. more…

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  • luisestable1
    luisestable1
    This is a sad situation indeed, but it is loneliness more than anything else. But yes, things can get better as long as one is alive. Hope ends when death comes, until then things can always turn around for the better. A heart-felt poem this is! 
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