by Duru Samuel Azubuike
Published on: Jan 24, 2008
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Type: Poetry

She was pain-racked and dumb
As she mined
Her oddest ordeal.
Black and blue marks all over her waist…
The ravish lavished her soul!
A gash it was in her conscience;
Draconian distortion of her personality!

Phobia became her constant companion
As her psyche was thuggishly brutalized.
She feared even her own silhouette -
…a sheer prisoner in her own abode.

Alas, I pity both!
Yes! The defenseless damsel
And the hulking predator.
The duo are wretched captives;
The stranglehold of the devil,
Plunged them into apocalypse.

Transient sweetness
For protracted, internal shred.
Foolish act!

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