
“Obi ba apira me”
I should have guessed it
I should have listened to the caution
He sucked the juice out of me
but made me feel special
like I was wanted but I wasn’t
He was just tapping into my influence on campus.
When I was annoyingly breathing
audibly through my blocked nostrils,
When my knee could no longer support my body,
when my eye lid continually kissed my eyeballs,
when the eight skeletons excruciated pain in my wrist,
when my tommy with pain scared the hell out of me,
Where were you?

When I was leaving you saw my condition
You even asked if I needed anything
All of this as if you cared
Call me when you get home, that was what you said!
The call I was unable to make
My appearance in your thought you were unable to name
So you forgot about me as if I was nothing
like I don’t exist and that’s what has been happening

If I was dying this would have been my funeral
Deep down you knew we were just friends online
I just failed to notice it
I was overwhelmed by his virtual attention,
his hugs from which I could hear his heartbeat and not his intentions,
kisses from his tender lips that landed on my cheeks and fore head without permission
I once thought all of this symbolized something
Earlier today I wrote a child soldier fiction in blood
Tonight I write an autobiography of our love
in tears and not ink
It’s unfortunate that our hearts couldn’t link

I just realized that if I don’t text first
you never would
Unless I have done something
i never should
Even then it meant I was getting blasted
or you needed me to cover a story for your own personal interest
under the cover of giving me an exclusive.
With you I was always exhausted
To you I was a flag you never hoisted
Indeed I have been hurt by your action
I tolerated the opportunity for you to do so
Forget it; I can go on and on because I’ve been hurt.
They are all the same pretending to care
I guess I was just too blind to see
I deeply regret letting you know me that much
You obviously didn’t deserve to
Now I know I’ll always get disappointed
and broken hearted if I always expect others to do for me what I do for them
because not everybody has the same heart as I do!
Every relationship is a either a blessing or a lesson
“Obi ba apira me”

…Inspired by Papa Kwesi…
Aba Radical
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