They never know the fears
Camouflaged by those firm eyes,
The tender heart beneath that muscular chest.
Your belly is a burning furnace
Concealing tears, veins pervade your face
Like electric cables on high voltage
Waiting for just a storm for electrocution,
Yet, your tenderness is bountiful.
The last man standing when the sun retires,
Your feigned voice suits the lullabies, and
Ferries my sweet little heart to wonderland.
Your face is my guiding light along this
Oblique rugged path of life,
The many times you smiled as i babbled
Daddy, jovially thrusting me in the air
Electrifying my face into contagious
Laughter as my toothless mouth opened in
Ecstatic pleasure.
These moments remain Inscribed
on my heart like God’s
Commandments on the two stones.
From the maiden days of my life,
You smeared me with an everlasting
Fragrance, everywhere I go.
This Poem was published in the June 2023 edition of the WSA magazine. Please click here to download.
Read – For my Hero – A Poem by Nakut Janet, Kenya
