You Will Miss Me When I'm Gone Poem by ObiGod Chidi CC

You never cherished me as a diamond I am,
But as a chunk of familiar clay
Your contempt fingers abuse and misuse.


You never put me in your best light
Maybe because I'm yet to be coloured
Which your myopic lens failed to see.


You never said you love me
Maybe because I chant that to you
As rosary at twilight and dawn.


Even when my hoarded love
I pour on you as royal pearls
That you trample underfoot to bite my heart.


You've drank my honey to your fill
Now you throw up at my pink face
Yet I gladly wipe your odourless mess.


You never celebrated my incessant goals,
Nor danced to the songs of my trophies,
Because you branded me a competitor.


Oh! You have been too close
That you now smell my lofty nose.
But why didn't you keep its stench a secret?
But soon I will be gone
And you will miss me when I'm gone.
You will surely miss me when I'm gone.


Yes, you will miss me as the sun
On a hectic day of the eclipse
When darkness will hold your tail.


You will miss me as a hot lullaby
When sleep divorce you on a lonely night
And cold terror knocks at your door.


You will miss me as your favourite actor
Out of your theatre of romance and intrigue
When I draw the curtain without a warm epilogue.


You will miss me as your red caped hero
When your day is lost and conquered
And you stagger a captive in chains of anguish.


You will miss me as a miracle I am
Sent from God as an angel of salvation.
You will miss my words as golden bars,
My smiles as flashes of steady lightening,
My touch as the effect of a living elixir.
You will search for me as a lost treasure
Even my legacy you will seek to embalm;
By then I will be gone
And you will miss me when I'm gone.


25-05-2017