"Agony of a broken heart" by Adegboyo Solomon

Against the wall he leaned,

In a loose-fitted and faded jean,

Hair higgledy-piggledy, beard unshaved,

Nail unkempt, clothes unwashed,

Head tilted to the right like a woman

Mourning the death of her only son-cum- man.

Hand-in-hand they had walked through the village,

Into a future no one can envisage.

He had loved her foremost of all God’s creation,

For she was to him a tower of inspiration.

He asserted that she came as a hope

That would help him to cope.

Now, there he sat in a sombre mood,

Depressed, dejected and rejecting every food.

He could not fathom any reason

Why she could have deserted him all season.

However, she is gone – she had broken up with him

It just dawned on him that she played on him.

‘Gbam!’ Erupted the sound,

His body on the floor, found.

His head he had smashed against the wall,

And a tick it took him to fall.

Adegboyo Solomon is a 300-level student of Law at Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti.