Paramour Poem by Victor Okechukwu Anyaegbuna

Let me be love’s image
And let my wishes stride
Titanic over mountains of flesh;
Let my prayers be tenants of age
That shall unbind me, and bestride
The tantalums of wreck and relish.

Let me be lust’s replica
That my mantle will blindly search
The bush path to havens gate;
Let my wishes rock and flatter
The heart of waters within my reach,
That pry over dark mansions of fate.

Let my valour dread
The scrotum of the angry bull
That, at his welcome gate, bares and flings
The studded bombhead.
Let this be a father’s last tool
to usher in a new generation of his own siblings.

15 October 2010
Amuwo-Odofin, Lagos.