6. i Saw My Father's Ghost Before His Death (A Sonnet) Poem by MATTHEW ADJEI

I saw my father's ghost before his death
When the scholarship letter was received
By the self-styled deserted husband aggrieved;
Who scored a trump card in his promiscuous mirth.
Then I heard the fiend with a ghoulish curse
Swear revenge to haunt the innocent son
Who could make no head or tail of the pun
Of the adult charades of nonsense verse.

Yes, I was the pawn in the lost battle;
The vindicated dream never-came-true;
The demolished tower of his domino;
Now reconstructed with a higher steeple.
For when God fills the cup with divine brew,
Come what may, mortals plot in vain, hey presto!