will you be my to the moon and back?
will we ever be right on track?
will you be my all time high?
will you give me your chicken thigh?
will you be my christmas morning?
will I ever be your favourite being?
will you fancy to sit down for a cup of tea?
will we ever be a possibility?

will fate let you?

will fate?
will you?

will you be my someone new?

/pc

“I need more than you…”
She said and walked away
“I’m emerging…”
Pain whispered as the calyx tore

The feeling you have right now,
are you ever afraid that you will never feel it again?
That it will never be real?
That it never existed?
For what is that feeling without hope?
Is it too far from reach?
Could it be possible
that the feeling you have right now
might last forever?
Do you want that?
Do you not deserve that?
It would be a shame
not to try and make it
a possibility

I hope you've heard my love hiding inside the melody that Donny Hathaway plays
From every poetic note folded amongst the ivory keys plucked
This heart writes light like butterfly wings fluttering in flight
But it's heavy when I barely see you
So, my vision grows old like my wishes of us
Weakened only by fleeting time
Yet. lengthened
Like desires that chain-link hopes to the wildest dreams along far streams
You could say I'm always in your hair
Wherever the strands flow, I follow its fibers feverishly
Strung along by song of nature so strong, that
I'm in a Pinocchio-state, made to move by your voice
A puppet parroting psalms to praise your personage
In the richness of your favor
In the hour of knowing
It's been a minute
And time is indeed money
Every second counts when I'm around your golden smile
I wish I could play this track forever
Or rewire my brain to rehearse every one of your favorite verses
Be the B-side of your cassette
And rewind to the best moments
Unwind together.

Ifeanyi N. Okoro II © 2018

consider the possibility
that it is gently unhealthy
to wrap your arms around me
while the one you want is she

I love you though
but you tell me no
so I let you go
but your actions show

that while you stand with her you look at me
so I start to weigh the probability
and I know the thought is blasphemy
but I love the taste of a maybe

I took your words as meaning
but your actions are seeming
to get me dreaming
so please tell me what are you meaning

when you hold my hand
and unfairly command
that I understand
I'm less than what you had planned

but still you hold my hand

and I don't want to let go
but as soon as it shows
you push me away
so that nobody knows

to consider the possibility
that it is gently unhealthy
to wrap your arms around she
while the one you want is me