The Heartbreaker

The Heartbreaker

You left me

Left me by myself

With lots of pain in my heart.

Every time, every day, every night, every...

 I reminisce about your leaving

I remember you walking down the hall

In breakage of your promise

To walk with me down the aisle

Then it was my fault

I think on remembering.

But come to think of it,

Is it my fault? Or was it my fault?

I could remember that

I met you in my times of plenty

When life was good to me

When life gave me abundance of rain

When all pointed me in the reign.

You attracted me with your beautiful

Flawless face, perfect body and straight legs.

I came running to you with my proposal.

You taunted me for a while

Two months, I think, more or less

It matters not, what matters was that

At the end of the wait,

You said, ‘Ay’ to me which

To me was a joyous thing cos, were it a year,

I was ready to wait since you were

Worth every moment of the wait.

That was the beginning of our journey

Of romance so blissful.

We chatted, talked, gisted, discussed

Everything in the world. Including our life

After we would have tied the nuptial knots.

As introverted as I was,

You brought out the latent traits

That were hidden in me.

You taught me how to love which made me

Jettison all the warnings, hearsays, rumours

And accusations by friends and family alike

That you were with me for the honey

Which life gave to me in my hive.

I told them off and backed you in all.

Everything you said I believed,

So, where did I go wrong?

You were so angel like

That I was blind to your faults

You preferred the eatery to the kitchen

You never drank pure water cos

You always fell in love with Eva water.

You loved the dry cleaner more than hand washing,

You loved the cinema more than our TeeVee and video.

You loved shopping at the Palms Mall

On the Island rather than going to Oke Aarin

You were never in love with public transport

Chattered rides free of stress was your likeness.

All the bills I bore complainlessly

Since I believed that nothing is too

Much and small for the love of my life.

Moreover, the dough is there

So, why hold back in spending it!!!

Then life came with thorns

In place of the roses I had. It gave me galls

Rather than the honey. The bees refused

To excrete honey. The hive got dried up.

It all started with an unwise dealing

On my part in my line of business.

I was dealt a cruel card to play.

And since I tried reshuffling the deck

To no avail and since all the cards I picked

Are tainted with blackness, I resigned to fate,

And started popping the business corn

Which the business world had thrown in my

Popcorn machine lest it got burnt. All these

You were aware of as I hid nothing

From you, so you were aware

Aware that life that was rosy had now

Become sour. Then, it came crashing down.

Your behaviour changed, your love for me

Became gradually worn out. It became like,

Then dislike, then hatred, then despise!!!

All praises disappeared. Blames replaced

The show of love. I now became the black

Sheep to you and not the cynosure of your eyes.

The golden egg that was once laid

By the golden hen were both forgotten by you

Then you tied me to the tree of yew.

Now that both the egg and the hen have

Become broken and dead, you chose the

Easiest one of many options in life

That is facing the exit door!!!

I still can’t believe that the love of my life

Has left me. The space you left in my heart

Has made me ill and sick. My once whole

And healthy heart you shattered mercilessly.

Then I remembered what my family and friends

Told me about you.

That you were in love with my money

And never with me.

Such a sorry case for me!!!

Thank God!!!

Thank God that I am getting over

With the heartbreak you inflicted on me

Thank God that I am getting back on my feet.

Life is giving me back my rose

Life is now dealing me favourable cards

Life has reshuffled the deck in my favour.

Life has made my efforts yield results.

But you are not here to witness it

Not there to witness my rise once again.

But still,

Anytime I hear footsteps down the hall,

I remember you leaving me

For good and for life!!!

CLOSURE... A SONNET

Though my heart by you was broken

Grateful will I always be for the token

Of love and life you into my life brought

And of the care and attention you wrought

On me. These I resolved can only be sought

Out and I intend to find, since it can’t be bought

With all the currencies I just came about.

Needed not is the help of a marabout

But the prayers of the saint

That reside in places that is without taint.

And eat and drink that which is holy and clean

And not that which with filth is fat or lean!

Oh Lord my God!!! You I beseech fervently

To make whole again my broken heart perfectly!

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