Melencolia I (Commercial Poem) Poem by Chidiebube onye Okohia

Melencolia I (Commercial Poem)



I fear the night
When my mind is embalm'd with heightened hauntings
Of my childhood, studies and feelings:
I grab a cup of water, easing with fright.

Fret and rile
My eyes are filled with bile
For all nature, a madding tie
And those who harry terra to feel merry
Cackling with dimpled-cheeks,
Our souls mating amid agony
Of our conscience and of the ethereal creeks.

I speak not of everyone
But everyone born from a crimson-filled foetus forlorn;
Lo! E'en Christ took to be born.

My melancholy is of women
Their painful labour and vapid tears
Like those with chaste mien
I'll speak, and let all list'n with ears.

(03-01-AD2011)

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