Will You Be My Tomorrow

Will you be my tomorrow?
When the sun creeps languorously
Red and purple swirls,
golden tentacles stretching,
stretching to embrace the spreading wings of birds aflutter
as they draw towards those very life giving limbs as they
burst through the skies vividly
To and fro they dart
a choir of beautiful solo proclamations disjointed yet unified

Great trunks sturdy
lifting greens higher, 
higher to drink of that potion
Buds, slowly they unfurl giving way to dainty leaves
How carefully they are veined, their sustainance obtained
Leaning blades they weep as they witness
the beauty of my tomorrow, today

Will you be my tomorrow?
Vicious winds howling
Oranges, browns swirling
like dancers they flutter to the ground
Soft blanket of fallen pieces carefully laid
disrobed from gnarly fingers striving,
yes striving for perseverance 

Garbled birdsong , hunched wings
as they retreat into cocoons of their creation
woven and threaded pecked and mud slung
perfect in their complexity, 
beautiful in simplicity
See where there is stunting, blades no longer lush but
trodden to bareness beneath the carpet of debris that paves a way for regrowth

tomorrow...
but what about today?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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Kimathi Avatar
April 12, 2016 at 8:18 AM
Congrats, Abongile, for your placement with this fine piece!!! ;-)
Ncwana Avatar
April 12, 2016 at 8:36 AM
Thank you TK:)
A   Avatar
April 10, 2016 at 11:17 PM
Abongile Ncwana, Congratulations on your LOVE OF POETRY win. ~always~ LINDA
Ncwana Avatar
April 12, 2016 at 8:37 AM
Thanks Linda:)
Misra Avatar
April 10, 2016 at 10:14 PM
Just too lovely! Congrats, Abo. Loved reading your poem aloud.
Ncwana Avatar
April 12, 2016 at 8:37 AM
Thank you Karam :)
Davey Avatar
April 10, 2016 at 7:32 PM
Congrats on your placement in this contest, well deserved
Ncwana Avatar
April 12, 2016 at 8:35 AM
Thanks Brian; )
Lawless Avatar
April 10, 2016 at 2:26 PM
Abongile, very nicely done, the last couplet brings the poem "full circle". The longings for "tomorrow" encased in the question "but what about today." Thanks for entering the contest.
Ncwana Avatar
April 10, 2016 at 2:45 PM
Thank you John, I'm quite surprised at the placement as I'm quite new at writing my thoughts down. This is very encouraging!
Scars Avatar
April 10, 2016 at 12:50 PM
Abongile, congrats on your placement in the contest :)-luloo
Ncwana Avatar
April 10, 2016 at 1:01 PM
Thank you, Laura ;)
Ncwana Avatar
April 6, 2016 at 3:16 PM
One of my first poems...
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