This is the story of a heart

trailing in the darkness,

battered by the uncanniness

of five words;

"I don't love you anymore."

it was like an invalid password to my ears,

accesss denied

and my heart began

to burn at the stake,

by the fires of sorrow

my bravery melted into baby tears,

tears that flowed like an endless Nile,

my darkest hours

This situation was between hammer

and anvil,

my soul stricken with the cruelty of verbal lighning,

I couldn't breathe anymore,

oxygen was extinct,

was heart was wiped out of existence

Many times I called

and she didn't pick,

my soul began to cry

even before my eyes

my head kept spinning in astonishment,

shock,

all my high hopes,

melt into horrible scenes,

horrific visions,

dark visions, nightmares of how the world

would be when she was not there.

                                                          By Kakraba Afful