Hotness Stems My Coldness Poem by Olumodi John Tope

On a very sizzling diurnal ambience
When the sun shone as if to incinerate
When the body organs were barbequing
Cataract ran out of the body pores like raining
The earth itself did not enjoy itself
Tending to even reject any offer
Vegetation on the earth anguished in twingling pangs
When the bare feet could not be angrily stamped
If stamped, Stamped with abrupt give-up
The room so blistering
I lay on bed for comfort
Comfort also raised a fuss for comfort
I changed position to lounge on tiles
Tiles lodged pins on its surface
I sprinkled water on tiles
In form of smoke,
Sprinkles exhumed the heat from the terra firma
My eye balls already rubicund
I sat a while with my two hands
Each shaped like a 'v'
Held to hold my cheeks
In a sudden, I arrived at a novel idea
I took a torrid stool
To head straight for a cocoa-tree grange
The croft with enough comfort in its incarceration
I enjoyed the unusual smoldering of fresh air
Both length and breadth of the ranch offered me a red carpet
I found myself grossing the trance
It was just a paradise fashioned on earth
All my snags and trash elapsed
Death seemed certain from this tone
Death at that eon just like transition to El Dorado
All of a sudden, I glimpsed long curled spiral-like reptile
Multi hue complexioned
Hurling out a thin short tongue
Descending with head faced down from the top of a cocoa shrub Terror enwrapped my essence
The trees that engulfed me turned wraits,
One time utopia a cruel locale
But the air tended to turn it to an anchorage
I shouted on a loud voice for succour
My voice only being held by echoes
What did I see?
A reptile of the suborder
Having a scaly cylindrical limbless fused eyelids
Confusion broke my bones
Progress was a place of risk
Withdrawal a butchery trap
Stationed spot more than a carnage
Decision became a hurdle
The surly ophidian advanced me
To challenge my brave temerity
Suddenly, my limbs drove for asylum
Where wheezes heisted my breath.