My Queen, it’s been a pretty time
Since I have not heard from you.
My mind tells me that you could be asking:
Why is he suffering himself writing always?
Who is he to me? I don’t even know him!
Know that love knows no boundary!
My Queen, my mind tells me also
That you could be wondering
Why I preferred to address you
As a governess of a kingdom,
Perhaps you were not a governess of a kingdom,
But I chose to address you a Queen
Because there is a kingdom you were oblivious
That you’re a Queen to, that is in this heart.
You have occupied my mind, my thought and my well-being
Because you are symbol of love
With your chirpy vibrancy and cheery exhibitions.
My Queen, I am missing you!
Could you remember that you were always wishing me ‘safe’?
And always telling me to be in ‘peace’?
Now that you have decided this way,
I am no longer safe and no longer in peace.
Solitude has become an everyday companion
And sorrow decided not to depart from me,
Wherever I went since then.
Now I gain pains and pierces of trauma
Since your dis-communication from me.
My Queen, I watch your picture quite often
Glowing like the stars in heaven
Especially those that directed
‘The three wise men’ with gifts
For the Messiah, but my hearts gloom's
For what is happening.
My Queen I see you full of life,
But had no life myself because I am missing you.
I am empty now but filled with your missives.
I am stripped because I have sold my heart to you
Without you knowing that you bought it.
My Queen, your missives lingers,
And anytime I reread them I agree that love lingers.
I read your soothingly English language in my mind.
I see your soothingly smile in my dreams.
I scream from dreams to live because of you,
And when people ask me
I say, ‘I love you’! ‘I love you’! ‘I love you’!
Copyright 2006 Odimegwu Prince Onwumere
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