Remembrance Poem by A A Umar Udubo

Remember the day
We confessed albeit too late
You afar through a network and I lay
In bed talking to a roommate
Remember the night we spoke
And the mental stroke
The holy silence that bound us each to each
The faint sighs, the light gasps that seemed to breach
The long night
And transplant late-lovers in broad daylight
That long sorry text message I sent
(In the long night) I spent
Still some text's missing
I feel it pressing
That rapturous moment I told a friend I die
He said: You lie
Like a holy pendulum
My love for you do flood
My veins, transmuting the blood
Making my heart drum
It's such a big joke:
When you're there my tongue was tight
Now that you're gone I spoke
In soliloquy to an audience I lack with a bragging might
God! I loved your eyes and the smiles
I loved it when you come and go away
The way you step I see across the miles
And remain under your sway
Like waves of the flowing Bahrain
Split by an invisible barrier
We become, the day they gathered in prayer
Closely apart in the world we train
When a wave snatched and dropped you off ashore
You're calm, cold, pale: unlike afore
No longer beholden, I paint your silhouette in a pool of eternal lore
(11: 54, August 23,2015)