The Bride Poem by Raison samuel

The hall was filled with laughter and smile;

I could hear the clinkering and rattling of glasses and people spoke with drunken tongues;

On this very same day of my marriage the groom was busy filling his next glass of wine;

Far across the hall I saw a man lost in his thoughts;

I couldn’t take my eyes off him as it seemed, I knew him forever;

I failed to realize that it was my love standing in the corner of the hall;

I could see his moist eyes; he was trying to hold his tears back;

My heart was pierced with thousand knives seeing him;

I couldn’t keep up my promise that I had given him;

God would ever forgive me for committing this brutal crime of betrayal;

He came near me with a faint smile and spoke to me with bitterness in his heart;

I wanted to hug him again for the last time with all my heart;

But I knew, he wouldn’t love me again the way he loved me when we were together a few years back.

I couldn’t let the body of the hungry groom consume me.

Everyone around was happy for me, for getting married to a rich man.

Yet, they failed to understand that I was starving for love and him.

I dispatched the room in silence; thinking of him I pierced my bosom with a knife letting the earth to consume me, forever.