Poetry: A girl in my dreams by Uchendu Njionye

A girl in my dreams

(For Ukachukwu victory)
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This poem begins with you as a lost ant

Searching for home

Hiding from the cruel invasion of foots

Striving hard to make a morsel out of what humanity dumped on you

You’re digging up earth to shed your dried skin

then, the rains came.
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Another verse of this song

Begins with you

Raising a flag for your lost tribe

This flag has droplets of red

and a girl with parted legs

trying hard to stand erect,

This flag has tiny strands of blue

surfacing amidst high current dark hue.

You’re clearing and weeding a space

To mount this flag

Then, the wind came.
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… And a mad man is clothing himself in your labour…
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A line in this poem says a guitar is playing to bones in the wilderness

and skulls danced till they clip to their spine

But termites have eaten half the foot

This soul couldn’t stand.

I see you creeping back into your cave

An abandoned crib

Same ship that crip your dreams.

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The summary of this aubade:

I’ve watched you carve on mountains

And raised tress to house birds,

Your voice shall resonate uncaged.

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Uchendu Njionye is a poet before mic and in journals, a fashion designer and lover of Art. He currently lives in an empty room in the outskirt of Aba, Abia State.