BLOOD

BLOOD
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She
moves with a trail of blood
on her back heels
with a glance back
she felt the urge to turn back
the hand of the wheel

She
feels the agony of her wrong steps
her unbroken vows broken
naivete
her mind reproaches her
“what have you done to yourself?”
she queried

She
years o’er years
on the pedestal of sanctimony
sanctioned the touch thought
of men
and his antics
for that she trusted herself
but now… .

She
reminisces the golden days
when the distance between the thing
beneath her rump
was a gulf
until she gave it all out
… unaware

She
yells yet no one could hear her
she cried and agonises
but the guilty on her eyeballs
stiffened whatever could come
from her bittered mouth
and whatever could come from her ember eyes
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She
wonders “how could a man be so cruel?”
she questioned “what would benefit him
stealing her innocence?”
for his own gain
but she forgets
the blame is hers
when she was to like, she loved
when she was to respect, she fell for him
she orchestrated the tragedy
of her own downfall
and the lost blood now hunts her.

AGBOOLA Afees Akinola
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2018