Dear Uloma: Poem by Chidinma Ahika

The Poet: Chidinma Ahika

                                                       


Let me be the magic,
That tinder startling from your alluring eyes

Let me be the lullaby
That melts the fears you foster

Let me be the dawn
That withers your inner nightmares

Let me be the tick-tock
That freezes in constancy for our paradise

Let me be the moisture
That gives you the heat you desire

Let me be the hinges
That dangle you to and fro

Let me be the mountain
That shields the harsh clemency

Let me be the hawk
Against the reptilian evenings

Let me be the Superman
In your steamy story

Let me pillow the sadness
That fractures your dainty outline

Let me curve the trajectory
That ends your thorny quandary

Let my letters
Sweeten your world as congregation of colours
My dear Uloma