Death Night

We fooled the prying sun's eyes Eyes that revealed our shells The moon exposed us with shadows Figures on the alcove with lost identity We lurked in gloomy path As stealth as nightmen with fingers Interlocked. The night's breeze pecking Our cheeks - 'Blessing' for the impending union Came nights of locked lips in mild combat And fingers hiding beneath the gown. On one feverish night the tongue pierced Through the sliced halves. The forbidden fruit Devoured with missing dental dam. That night I died. After series of earth's revolution consequences Rained. Then recalling mother's stinging words "Ifu ife na chonelo, ega bayen nemunno"