Trevor Ikenna Uzomah | + Follow Poet |
Verse | + Fav Poem | Comment | Email | Print |

Difficult Ambition

i saw the footprints on the sands of the oasis, 
and the loamy soils around the rose garden, 
i also saw prints on the mountains: 
the strings that aid the climber, i also saw 
them go the other way around; 
(evidence of return,decent) 

but i still look for the prints on the sky 
around the moon, 
and so i still stare up,neck bent, 
cos she turned a million miles a meter 
in the darkness of the woods,dungeon, 
hungry heart when she smiled at me. 


i saw me descend the valleys(i didn't know) 
went anticlockwise(couldn't imagine) 
high among the milky she holds my heart. 
my feet never touched the ground: 
no job,office,domain. 

circles:the  universe, clock ,and me, 
impeccable gyration,for the arrow i fired 
keeps descending,and so she still takes 
me along(no direction)just the way it was 
when i first saw her. 

. 
bitter sweet is what i utter
when i am immensed in water
hung afloat to the stinging rays of the sun

bitter sweet is what i mummur
when the sun steps down for the moon
light is life dark is doom

a valve of contradiction regulates
an appetite of glutt
if not i am sunk in the abyss
and gulped up in diarriahoe

i get good milk and millet
for nagging and shout,
i am curled up in a spoon i dare not taste

yonder and yonder my heart wonders
to a place known as comfort ground
where i am still under the sheets
and my eyes transfixed
to the sleeping eyelids and lips of my ever bitter sweet

Copyright © Trevor Ikenna Uzomah | Year Posted 2006

Please Login to post a comment