Neilton

Ode to rebirth

You visited my roof again at night 

\"My dear boy will I ever escape this plight?\"

You haunted my sleep.

So I closed my eyes , pretending to fall deep.

\"They can see it now that I slowly fleet\".

 

And in my dreams you were a grown man 

with a decisiveness to catch the stars, on my behalf 

endowing me with your armipotent heart.

The serenity in one man\'s eyes

came silently and stole my mind

engulfing me in ardency and pride.

And vowed to an already forgotten welter .

\"You can make this life a belter\" shouted,

to beguile me into shattering my shelter.

 

 

But there were my presentiments in all of your endowments

Marooner\'s expertise, I \"surmised\".

And in the nick of time, I woke up - to them aligned.

You stood there, walking straight

pacing flouncy to your next meant - to plunder train

with not one feeling riving your brain.

How can you not feel ashamed?

When there was me counting days, to break free

apace with my fixation about palliating your sins 

But there was you leeching off my dismality?

All my eighteen years wizening...

Hoping you were stranded there like me.

Seasoning...

 

 

\"Why do you steal me only at nights?

And forget to alert me of your words being lies ?

Or that our kindred spirits were an illusion?\"

thoughts vowed to forever hide .

\"If I ever awakened you would you call it a crime?

And marred it til in ruins and til out of sight?

Pounding your head against walls

to shield your crumbling bones

created by past scars etched in your \"soul\"?\"

Who was I without you, that, I didn\'t know!

 

In my flyover places

I couldn\'t even mouth your outrages.

Chained up, choked with feelings,

thousand yard stares were aiming at ceilings,

seeing visions of your dreamings

woolgathering along with your scheming.

 

Slowly fleeting, forgetting to breathe in

pretending to fall deep

in my graveyard imbued with your sins.

Musing over deceitful looks

ashamed, I admit

to plunge into a hug, that will never meet peace

 

This was all true, methinks.

Demons were the ones shrieking 

\"I\'ll be seeing you\"

at every glance, at every look,

at every single one of your volatile reviews. 

 

Dilly-dallying about my remedies

led me to an everlasting warren.

Barking up the wrong trees

I saw war end,

unbothered .

 

\"Tragedy to die fairly young\"

whispered the ferryman.

Shedding tears on my behalf

and ill oaring to reach the riverbank.

Even Hades hovered

while reading my last sonnet .

So for the first time,

he exiled

the one who mismanaged the land of dreams

and abandoned me to the Asphodel fields.

So just like Hercules 

I was ferried back to life

This time not as the also-ran

but with my fellow traveller by my side

 

By the time birds started to warble 

I set about my moulting

And I burned all your marble

Deserting all our puzzle - pieces crumpled.

Now that eyes are wide open

The shelf life of my reveries

will be forever rotten

Along with my garland of asphodels.