Jayne and Fru...

I wrote this for bosom friends of mine within an hour of learning that they were engaged and planned to get married! They are now married and I am fondly thinking about both of them today... I have been privileged to watch their love story unfurl like a fern... may the full essence of marriage become a magical reality in their married life... in putting this up, I salute you - Jayne and Fru...


Jayne and Fru!

Shakespeare must bite his finger in his grave,
Wishfully thinking he could satisfy his crave,
To write the love story I see nature tell,
One which nothing has been able to quell,

I saw it when it was just a fragile bud,
I saw love bloom from friendship's bud,
Love which weathered the storms of adversity,
One determined to ridicule the tempter's atrocity,

Love which will cling on anything to revive,
Do everything necessary to survive,
Ride the waves of the pangs of separation,
Hitch a hike on the back of trust,

Sail in the ship of hopeful anticipation,
Against tides of assailing seas of loneliness,
Love which has endured pain,
Made some tough choices,

Love which has embraced hurtful sacrifices,
Refused to give up,
Denied to break up,
Vowed to make up,

Love which has survived temptation,
Healed from the fatal stabs of betrayal,
Neutralized the poison of jealousy,
Doing whatever it takes to go on,

Every time with bigger vitality,
Suffocating a benevolent neutrality,
Investing in another,
Until one becomes the other,

Without losing individuality,
Giving each other room to grow,
To grow for the other,
Letting the wings of adventure grow wider,

And now the two shall become one,
So today as I continue to learn from love,
May you two love one another to the death,
Fru and Jayne...

© 2010 afeseh ngwa hilary

Nature's tantrum fit.

Nature's tantrum fit.

Can you see nature?
Can you see it continually throwing tantrum fits?
Can you see how nature quakes,
And shakes the earth in violent indignation?
Can you see the cyclones and tornadoes and tsunamis,
Run across the earth at break neck speed,
Ripping and leaving a massive destruction in its wake?
Can you see, Can you see, Can you see?
Vast skies shower the earth in copious diarrhea,
Flood the lands and drown the tallest man,
Yet a famine rocks parts and pockets of the same earth,
As parched and thirsty grounds die to quench their thirst,
Dormant volcanoes erupt in apparent protest,
Spewing and puking enough to paralyze the skies,
Unpleasant surprises cook up in the bowels of the earth,
Question for you nature!
What do you protest?
What is it which angers you so?
Are you just a pawn in God's divine hands,
Fulfilling the inescapable Biblical prophecies?
Are these birth pangs for something greater yet to come?
Where have we gone so wrong?
Humanity is helpless and hapless,
In the enormity of your strength.

© 2010 afeseh ngwa hilary

I marvel.

I Marvel.

Winter's barely gone away,
I marvel this morning as I watch blades of grass,
Still wet from the bath of morning dew,
Shining in the morning sun,
Oh they bore the brunt of winter days,
More than man will ever know,
Carrying feets of snow,
Yet,
They refuse to cling to that painful past,
And grow at the slightest chance...
I want to be like those blades of grass...
Help me God :-)

© 2010 afeseh ngwa hilary