Today

  "Mid Summer's Bluff"

I love you "today"

For your transient bliss

That my heart has set at ease;

and as I face all that will unfold

Each tick  I hope is speckled gold.

Thank you "today""

For your promise of tomorrow

Unsealed though it may be;

I’d take it all by the throw

For the blessings of  yesterday I hope

My soles would stir all thru’ the maze.

 

I’m hopeful "Today" yet  perturbed

by stagnant hours caught in frames-

with bungee seconds stretched wide…..

pliant-defiant – like wayward sons,

unhinged- untamed by scornful eyes.

Charged though my crest this day

With shards of reverie -

 I wear my crown without regret.

But should you "Today" your grace

enshroud with cloaks of penury

I’d loathe and shun you so – and wish….

upon a cloud that it would rain on you.

Author: Hope Kalé Ewusi