Charmed

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The beauty of a work of art is its sound effect. It resonate with your heart rhythm promoting a cordial agreement with sound and pleasure. This poetry will heal that thirst.


The talking drum roars in fierce melody

Still, her silence speaks volume than it's rhythm.

Who has charmed her?

Could it be fear?

Whose chains confines her will.

Being her lover,

Her vision is his prisoner.

Her voice drowns in his love

Alas! The streams of hope aflow

Her vision could have a bath 


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That heart leaps to brace

The sun smiles in excitement

She raises that glossy chin to see

Beholding her new lover - HOPE

She embraces more than just her colour.

She arises above the chains of fear.

She tells him,

Not in silence but with a voice that echoes;

Take another look beyond your illusion:

I am BEAUTIFUL 

I am BOLD

I am BLACK

 

By Favour Augustine

©2022


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