“WELCOME, MAEVE” POEM BY ROY OC CHUKWU
Three months without communication made me feel cold
An already cold world we are in
I wonder how it would be without my dearest friend
My mind’s travelling
Far and beyond
Still so deep
I cannot completely comprehend
Why this got me in tears
Kept wake in search of your closest persons on the web
With high hope that I get in touch with you again
I went to your page and I saw in a post you needed a God in the human person
As old as a two-year-old baby that was
It was deeper than just words
I have been thinking of you ever since I noticed your absence
Why have I got to think this deeply about your absence?
Are you not just like any other human?
Or, do you like her?
It may be so usual for them
But this is not usual for me
My spirit tells me this is so unusual
It was indeed a cold fold
Where ever you are, never fold
Keep living ‘til you are eventually old
As long as there is life, there is hope
Just forget the times that you got under my skin
Which made me scold
As I am in the search to reconnect with you
I write this poem hoping you will read it soon
The tears in my eyes while I face up to the moon
After the sun shone directly on my iris
Some days, the clouds move faster like it is pressed
Those are the ways my tears sound
But I’m never depressed
You’ve been close to me at heart
Though distance made us apart
When you read this soon
You’ll know all the places I have been to
Just to see you
Just to see you soon
You know who matters
Maybe the person that fights till the very end for you
Welcome, Maeve!