Beneath The Blanket

So we laid beneath the blanket

Entangled in the sheets

Heightened in the heat of what we thought was beautiful

What we thought was worth it

She was a melanin skinned beauty with lips immersed in rainbow

The type you would skip a meal for

I always fantasized about her

About us walking down pavements with hands riffling across flowers

Guess that’s what they do in movies

And my dreams were a gallery with her in every page

Flipping through was never easy cause each image was a song you never would finish singing

Well somehow it seemed…

It seemed luck rubbed off on me

How, I know not

But here we were

All I ever wanted

All I thought was worth the energy and time wasted

She was the diamond I wanted keeping

But for this last time,

As I stared into her soul

For all it was worth,

She seemed like a piece of yam too salty

Like a slice of over-ripe orange decorated by sand flies

Made too strong by the harmattan breeze

Yet melting gradually by the heat we both released

The room was full of steam

Consumed in a stench of worthlessness

She was the diamond I wanted keeping

But slowly the light started dimming

Guess it would have shone brighter

Brighter, if I never excavated too early

Never starred too closely

And for all it was worth

For all it meant

For all I thought it would be

Nothing…