DISSONANT HARMONY

This headache

That runs down

To the back of my neck

Pleasure-pain…

From laughing too hard

These friends I have

Make me lose breath

Doubling over in laughter

Bless us!

It was when I went home

For the weekend

That I took note

Of Mama’s

Illness

Evident on her face

“The pain is just horrible”

She whispered and sneezed.

“Bless you!”

I met him when he first arrived

And loved him till he left

Now he returns

In skirts and heels;

Miss Rose with a snipped tip

I can only mourn a lost member

Bless it.

She’s charming;

My petite chocolate queen

 Feeds me as she dotes

Then prays with me

For me

“Are you ok?”

With both eyebrows raised

This rare show of love

Bless her

An evening’s chance-meet

And the heavens’

Tender glow

“I’m going to come sit with you”

Then things went up and things went down

Rollercoaster with no safety belts

The poet’s vertigo

And mine…

Bless him

Sleep never

Comes this way

My street has no name

The morning sounds

Meet me wide awake

The young mother

Getting a frustrated tod

Ready for school

She sings the alphabet

In discord

And her husband sweeps

The paved compound

Bless them.

Now I sit and wonder

Where this madness

Came from

But I stop trying

To understand

Cos

Lunacy detached

From the lunatic

Leaves nothing -

Madness is me

Just as I am Lord…

Bless me