You Put Us Apart Poem by Michael Eziudo

It was your fault
When I was the word you used
Then when you were to talk about our achievements
And take the glories that were to be
Instead of letting you be the foundation of your talk of our walk together in sun and rain
Even where you bore the pangs alone

It was your fault
Then when you was the only defensive word in your dictionary
A sweet sounding tune used
With the intent of buying self out of the communal fall
Even when the tragic flaws were yours

It was your fault
When a strand of hair was seen in the food
And bile burst in your chest
Making you go mtchew, mtchew,
When all you should do was pick it away
Or the meal was coated with pepper and smeared with salt
And the mixture made to swim the lake of amaridion in the name of a soup
One that provoked your anger
And or then when materials and belongings would litter the room
And toileting and all stay unkempt and you boil
You really boil

It was your fault
When the efforts put in
Aren't yielding the required result
To give the breadwinner a rub on the head and the home keeper a pat on the back and songs of praises heard
And nagging and disregard aroused by impatience suggest themselves to you
You harken
If you had sipped just a cup of patience along a tablet of understanding and a little more tolerance
Only if you had

It was your fault
When the little talks provoked by unconscious controllable states of the mind turn to heated argument
And temptations of running mouths, curses, insults and raised hands try passing the thoughts of them
And the deed is done

It was your fault
When assumptions made you daydream
And you think yours spends time with another
And loathing and jealousy become the cause the breeds effects that shouldn't be
And untrust makes each party with a bleeding heart look the other way

It was your fault
When the seed of hatred began to sprout there in your heart
Planted by stored unspoken and unforgiven sins
And nurtured to maturity by the feeling of contempt haughtiness
That in no time produces segregation, castigation and separation
Then when the bond that held both together began to melt noticeably but unnoticed
And distance gradually created that peace went into hiding

It was your fault
Whenever it was or before that alien became appeasing to you and you went seeking

It was your fault
Everything that had happened so far that conditioned our hearts
And made us shed tears and now each of us look the other way

It was your fault
You put us apart