Love Poem: Assemblage of Failed Metaphors
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Written by: Kofi Amed

Assemblage of Failed Metaphors

Seldom do I remember how I lost the will to write 
Before I even lost the will to love 
I bounded my muses into a crystal gem 
Dispersing prisms into trivets 
A vying triumph of valour unbending 

Shoving rhymes and rhythms 
Until the poet in me wrote no more melancholic worded verses 
Shoving the torn pages down the drain 
Until the singer in me sings no love forlorn succinct hooks 

Meagrely i urged on 
Gradually I purge them 
And every time I touch the pen ,my paper cringes a little more 
And my thoughts just diverge from my converging realities 
And emotions wither like fire flares 

So when I have fears that I may cease to be  
I sojourn there 
Where I buried my departing alter ego 
Unearthing the tomb of words I once sealed 
Upon it which I inscribed 
“An assemblage of failed metaphors “