The Unmaking Of Fate Poem by Friday, Happy Oyamenda

1 I drove into the yellow
Setting sun and watched
The big blue sky narrow
The sun into red perspective


2 …and there where dawn
Is grey, after the yellow
Setting sun, will I wait
For you, my child


3 Wait not for me;
For the road is long
And this journey
I must go alone

4 What an ember of arrogance
Has fallen upon you, my child?
For surely as Merlin to Arthur,
So I am to you on this journey;
For destiny has stripped you
Of choice to quest without me;
For I am the one who waits
When all is gone pale


5 But this is the quest:
To seek that which
Destiny strips;
To go this way with you
Is to go the way we have
Come
This road I go alone…

6 Perhaps we have not
Yet learnt the way of
Wisdom trained before our eyes
So to go the way we have come
May be the journey’s purpose
To know that I am the half you need
To be whole is why I was sent to cast
My service upon thy feet
To command, my lord; To clothe your time With the garment of eternity,
Do not say nay, for I am the one who stays
And waits for you
When all shadows go

7 If it be as you say,
Then backward we shall travel
Until we come to the place
Before our paths ever crossed
Then I will begin again
My journey alone

8 Only then would I have seen you
Through your course;
For surely you would have learnt
The ways of the gods
Upon every path we ever crossed
Parting with thee
Would be but a garland for me;
For I would have poured out
My life for you, as Merlin for Arthur

9
And with this, we end
The broken hearted poem;
Two souls stuck together
In an unwilling journey to
Challenge destiny




Friday, Happy Oyamenda (stanzas 2,4,6 & 8) , Daniel Fwanshishak(stanza 1)
&
Negank Fwanshishak (stanzas 3,5,7 & 9)

18/01/2012