Ayei Ibiang
@ayeiibiang080407
1 year ago

A WINTER'S TALE

It's been 3 months and 5 days since our last crisis;
since we traded words
and couldn't come to a compromise,
failing to strike a bargain on the prices
The fraud I saw on your price list,
demands way too high I could see the falsifications;
the tampering all over your writings
The lies you sold me that I just couldn't buy
Your pride up on a hundred;
a significant raise
I could see the market value couldn't be lowered
from such a high
My lapses that could never be overlooked;
That judgmental eye
staring down my soul from the loftiness of an
apocalyptic sky
- You were hateful

So I became really reclusive,
a shadow of my once bubbly self


(Music Interlude...)


As if melancholia was not enough, you kept blaming me for all your actions
That my insecurities were suggestive of unfaithfulness;
that it was the divisive line for all our fractions
Yet you never saw that fact that your temper was
a harbinger;
a herald from the realms of the dead
Resentment and malice keeping late-nights,
you just couldn't put issues to bed

So I spent the last 5 hours reliving the whole scenario,
handpicking the loops in our conversations;
the areas I needed to have played mature;
What I should and shouldn't have said, the whole flashbacks and all
But you had your flaws,
the thing is
you were just too proud to admit it
Guess you bit more than you could chew this time;
so difficult to swallow your pride,
yet even harder to vomit it

I only wish you knew that for everytime you
flared up
it killed something in me,
yet I was always to be blamed for every clash
I just wonder how you had expected my
emotions to be alive
when you cremated my feelings to both char and ash

Well, I got your message saying, you're sorry that your actions were reflexive
“...wish I didn't scold her"
Atchoo! Bless me!
So much for leaning on a cold shoulder



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Written by: Ibiang, Ayei Okoi
Tuesday, August 16th, 2022.
12:54pm
#Aï
#Nirclestories
#Poetry