(Dedicated to Lt. Wife, Eunice Yanthan Pfithu)
They say we were flawlessly matched
Certainly, electrifying charm you wear,
Smile you compose kill thousand fellows;
We glide like a kite amid clouds,
On pony we ride have myriad memories;
Ev’ry ferry you pass makes unruffled sea.
The glorious scenic cannot be matched
The God gifted frankincense you wear,
Whilst you move the sun rays follows;
Your spoken words touch and clout
All! With you my existence faces no worries;
Soon thy ailing health I see.
Methinks I’ll never lost my way
For you’re my compass each way I go,
Oh but, bedbound you went;
Pallid to puny you had gone by and by,
Your glittering long rainbow hair fall;
Acute pain and afflict trauma I face.
Music dropped, silence paved its way
The pulse ceasing ‘nd ‘bout to go,
Your blue tears rolled and then went
Down to the pillow, mine too by and by;
I pretend no cry, but it cogently fall,
I was then with cold body near your space.
I drank my anguish deep
I am drunk in sorrow,
My mind befogged in agony;
My shadow followed me never,
I’m blinded in tears;
Catastrophe devoured ‘nd am alarm.
Angry to God, I keep
I know not where to grow,
I only see disastrous destiny;
The world see am happy never-
Not e’en a year our holy conjugal enters
Thence breathed your last in my mortal arm.
I screeched rumble rain
My tears bathe me through,
My throat garrotte forcefully;
The daggers slice me piece to piece,
The blood stagnant to pond;
I yearning breathing in your world.
The love of mine never rose again
Insomnia haunts me through and through,
Your face in my soul comes daily;
The love I gave you is my masterpiece,
The love you gave is the strongest bond;
I implore God to obsess me by thy world.
‘Am walking my spirit in the hollow land
Cos, the sun never rose in my land!
Rhutsomu (Angelo) Pfithu
