Catharsis: My First Love

I heard your voice first while you were sitting behind me on the second row in grade nine class The moment I saw you first, I felt a volcano booming, inside me I heard you criticize my school, comparing it with your previous one and to escape from your grunt I locked my earlobes. I told your sister I love my Mom, my School ...... Next day, I saw you alone, alone – at my Grand Mom’s house I saw you hide like a mouse………. a frightened mouse, in a dirty rat hole …. I still remember what happened I was in grade nine We stood with daggers in arms, and you splattered my white-washed school walls with a mud-fire We hated each other as crow and cuckoo do or cobra and mongoose do, but our mates stared with mouths agape at the rising … scarlet castle of love… in our fiercely fighting battle ground I dreamed one day a nightmare: My prince fell dead in the battle front…… I could do nothing……… I dreamed of marrying my first love, but it remains a living, breathing dream.… Dec. 5, 2020 Catharsis Poetry Poetry Contest Contest sponsor: Silent One