Written April 6, 2015; 3:39 PM
The night's at rest
The darkness is idyllic
The last words must be said
I must kiss you goodbye
The space binds the law of attraction
When my heart met yours
The universe feels the buoyant force
When my soul found yours
But the last words must be said now
For I’am leaving soon
While our galaxies apart,
Don't forget the cohesion,
of my soul and the moon
Our love is in every star
Connecting our hearts from over 1,926 miles apart
Love, look outside for the moon,
And the rays will reflect "I love you"
Those last three words are for you
Recorded, like a reflected sound wave;
Like a doppler effect,
Away but will never fade
Like the gravity that holds an object
Like the laminar flow of the water
Like the sweet magnetic shadow above
Our love will continue to the moon and back
Have you sought Paradise
searched high and low
Traveled the world over
seen the laminar flow
Wondered as galaxies glow
danced a forever calypso
Infinite the options life bestows
~ stalk eternal the no-shows
Tonight, I found my love
Staying beneath the shadow of my pen
With beautiful blue linings
Laying across her white rectangular face.
The evening stars glowing, at once
Her wood pulp character cuffed my wrist
"Conceive in me, your rumbling heart."
However my ink shivers in cold fears,
My love- I'm filling in your blanks tonight!
Joyous how my dry heart
When blessed with your pours
See my laminar smiles
Flowing through my dancing pen
After its loneliness of droughts.
I will conceive in you
The untold secret of my heart
After being ransomed with your presence
I never am bored
To paint the unwritten poems in you.
We met again to be a pair
After a long disperse, if not divorce
Albeit we are undivorced
We are equal parts lovely lovers.
Oh, Paper!
My lost love.
When the flood came,
It was beyond what I envisaged,
It was deeply overwhelming,
My feet could barely find a place,
I've seen my father wade through floods,
Floods of varying depths,
Some almost swallowed him,
Some flow was turbulent,
He could hardly stand,
Everything he had was almost swept away,
He said,
Floods are an integral part of life,
He said,
Without flood life's story is incomplete,
For it spices life's experiences,
I'd rather wade through a
laminar flow than a turbulent,
I’d rather raise a bulwark against a turbulent flow,
Make it flow in slow successions,
For the floods on the inside
in no way can be compared
to those on the outside,
They’re extreme disasters,
Only the unseen power is potent a bulwark.
February 08, 2022
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Along comes a flood
Edward Ibeh
The lightning sparked up the world
The earth sees it and trembled
The heavens sees it and proclaims his righteousness
& all the nations call this glory
The Almighty takes no sides
As for us life is like the grass, well grown and flourished into wild flower
Turbulent as the sea and laminar like rivers
Cold in winter blow on it, and melted by the sun for all who lives
Sing every creature with a voice
The taste ye so is bitter sweet
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