"The day I died" by Obinna Oke

Tonight I remember

Tonight I reminisce

I recall how I mumbled and stumbled

It is clear how I stuttered and muted

When I beheld the majesty of your pulchritude

I vividly remember that day

My heartbeat rose to 200 beats per minute

I recall in clarity the anxiety

But your Hi soothed my soul

I remember the eyes

That bulged with beauty

I remember the strands of dainty hairs

that twined your neck

The ears that stood firm

The bridgeless nose

and the divinely sculptured mouth

I reminisce that day

Your smooth round face reminded me

Of my grandmother’s grinding stone

The face adorned with dimples

But no pimples

Tonight I recall

How I froze and melted

At your smile

And how the blaze of your teeth

dazzled my eyes

Tonight I remember

The first and the last day

I saw an angel

I remember how we smooched

In the doorway

How I sunk in your embrace

Refusing to let loose

From your noose

Tonight I recall vividly

How I traced the valley in between

The large mounds on your chest

How I hid myself in your warmth

Of course thrusting

I recall with nostalgia

The smell of your skin

That superseded all fragrance in France

Your tender moans of ecstasy

And thirst of pleasure and climax

Even as school time hurried past behind us

And you would shout in delight

Oh how much I miss that

How could I live to forget

The one moment I felt heaven on earth

The one time I soared in utmost felicity

The one time I felt me

But cursed be that day

May darkness cloud that day

The day I died my first

The day the sun failed to rise

And the spring refused to spring

The day I wish I had a gun

The day I felt a pain worse

Than a stab in the heart

A pain graver than a pepper in the eye

The day I wooed death to be my friend

Of course, I died

That day you sucked me dry of true blood.

The day you selfishly took my

Head, my heart, my mind and my soul

And ground them all in front of me without mercy

And dropped me in the abyss of misery

With no hope of ever rising

You left me an alien

In a world of my own

Tonight I trudge in quandary

With dirty clothes, bushy hair

And unkempt beards

Tonight I live wreaking

Vengeance and havoc on innocent

Souls with no hands in my woes

Tonight I tramp listlessly

With dead head and iron heart

At the deepest altitude

In utter lassitude

Searching for solitude

Obinna Oke is a 500-level student of the Department of Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.