http://penastory.com/2016/03/05/poetry-play-18/

Samuel Oluwatobi Olatunji and Keenah-Kay Chekwas

S:

I’m a star in shards

Fragments fallen like tears from the eye of the sky

K:

Trying desperately to pick the broken pieces…

Each much heavier than the last

S:

I feel like a shaved peacock

Walking with nude ugliness

A pearl un-pearl-ed

K:

Stripped bare of all its glory

Relegated to the background

Wishing for what once was

S:

I search for sunlight

To breathe brightness again

But the night has clothed me in a blanket of darkness

K:

I’m blind to the world and deaf to voices in my head…

I just want a way out to paradise

S:

I want a glimpse of goodness

The sweetness of sight

But all I get is the memory of the car that crushed out my eyeballs

M:

The tragedy of that day hung over my head like a wet cloud

A reminder of what will always be

S:

A reminder of robbed radiance

Of stolen sunshine

Of broken beauty

A reminder of how my life has been ruined

M:

If I could turn back the hands of time

A phrase so often used

I find myself wishing for that

But then again I ask myself

If I really had the power

Would I give up what I had then just I get this back?

S:

But since I’m just a pawn of God

I fall, kissing the feet of my fate

M:

Begging for one last chance to make it right.

NB: Poetry Play, a product of Artilogue in partnership with PenAStory, is a game in form of poetic dialogue for every poet on BBM. It is a game of two poets: one drops a line or more, and the other replies, flowing along until one of them gives up, or the poem gets too long. Every poem formed from this game will be published here (penastory.com) every Friday and Saturday. So poets, are you ready to play? If yes, contact Samuel via BBM: 7f5210ec

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