Day 28: Unrhymed

Can I have a word with you?

Come away with me

And sit on this pampas grass.

Let us palaver

Just the two of us

Mi corazón.

We could talk the night away,

Until the constellations fall out.

We could build castles in the sky.

Or I could gift you the moon

In full bloom crowned with the stars.

Let's play the games we used

To play when we was children,

When innocence held its appeal

And we laughed and squealed

Without a single care in the world.

I want to look into your eyes

And forget about the worries

Of a universe gone to hell

In a hand basket.

I want to strum your heart strings

And let your words massage

My broken tones to buy back

The lost years and redeem

The children's laughter like prey

Snatched from the jaws of a bear.

But would we ever hear the

Simple sounds of child-like amusement,

Or recognize its cadence if it carries

Shouted from the mountaintop?

Akpan