Just as a desert land
Sings songs of petrichor
When kissed by drops of
Long awaited rain,
My soul resonates
With verses of
Harmonized ecstasy
When I see You.
When I see You
Showing up in trickles
Smiles decking your
Haloed face,
As you glow in my rather
Darkened secret place.
Oh, how it suits my sores,
My self-inflicted prints of
Disdain and despair.
How it washes
The fear that carpets
My heart’s ocean floor.
So, give me this a billion
Times more.
I would trade the world
To feel God’s smile on my wounds
in my secret place today and again.
Read – Mimi – A Poem by Catherine Mponda – Tanzania
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Nelson Okeke is a poet and medical doctor who lives in the North Central part of Nigeria. His work has appeared/is forthcoming on Poet’s Choice, Words of the Lamb and Time of Singing. He founded a Christian online poetry platform in 2019, and has edited two poetry anthologies; God Poems (Volumes 1 & 2). He is passionate about God, writing and medicine. He is happily married to his beautiful and loving wife, Kateanah.
