BALCONIES OF UNFULFILLED DREAMS

BALCONIES OF UNFULFILLED DREAMS
 
The Power of essence lies in 
willed servitude
 
dad will say, leaning his aged 
back to our torn sofa;

the most glaring testament of 
penury in the balcony

of his unfulfilled dreams.
 
We will watch as he demystifies 
secrets in notes

emanating from snores using 
several algorithms

downloaded from the brain of uncircumcised ghosts.
 
His words were catalysts, 
enzymes of abstractions

which overtime formed 
behemoths of sagacity in 

empty
cells of our minds
 
Dreams are subtile, only legends 
accomplish them.
 
he will say this with his pipe 
cigar pointing to the sky,

oozing out whiffs like incense 
which appeased for our

shortcomings to the god of 
slaps and cords.
 
We could only see a fragment 
of it's reality dawning

on us before he breathed his 
last. And then we took

those words, like a ram held 
by it's horns, skinned
 
and burnt them alive on the 
altar of heed, only to

see his words producing fruits 
of excellence

in the garden of our dreams


Written by Daniel Ezeokeke

Also Published on Grand little things

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