She Didn't Leave Her Heart Home Poem by Tony Adah

I am alone
I do not know who is with
Someone else
Now I'm married in name
She has travelled home
Forgot nothing here with us
But the haunting hunger that
Squeezes our entrails.

It is good sometimes to be alone
Listening to the wind whisper
There then its sagely words
Can say where you spouse's heart
Is hidden in your house while
She is away
And not any more aware
Of the frolicking children or their
Noises when hunger strikes
Or still the clanging utensils when
The search for grubs intensify.

I have been a father and I am
Now a father and a mother
Listening to the pros and cons
Of a nuptial duo
I can't wind back the clock
The honey moon is gone
My power attenuated and the love
On a daily hide and seek game.

Now I am breathing so abnormally
Waiting for the a split second of
Honeymoon again to calm my nerves
And the other times to fray them up
That's what was written in the
Nuptial vows
Some did understand.