Love Poem: Until Then
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Written by: Stephen Obeng

Until Then

The girl of my dreams and
I became an insomniac

Everyday I exalted her and
These days no more contrary...

Caressing her beauty but
Obscured to the ethereal sight
Deaf to the harmonious voice

I search for her but
Everytime I turnover
I descend

Blood bolting through veins
Anxiety attack with
Each inhale

Lungs turn into a canteen
Liquid ice barges in
As my Conscious and
Unconscious
Spar
under the
Permafrost surface

The devil butterfly strokes
Toward me
Celestial and
Peaceful
Like a dove
Saturated in
Blood

The devils decrepit
Hazel fingernails
Graze my lips
As I punch through
The ice and
Reach for
Her hand.
Forgetting
Shes now
Miles of memories
Away.

Now I stare
reality in the pupils.

Engulfed in its
Infernal darkness...

Reborn,
Before I can blink.
Immortalised in solitude.

Until we meet again,
Amour will be my armor

-Stephen Kofi Opare Obeng