Dusk
A hungry tigress plays with her cubs
It’s been long since they were fed
A mother’s anxiety driving her ahead
To aggression
To craze, to desperation
She nudges, she licks, she pushes
Till a prey she spots beyond the bushes
And as her instincts stand on one end
Knowing, for her children she will now fend
She waits with alacrity
That wait is eternity.
Another place, another town
In a dark alley three blocks down
A man shuts his eyes in prayer
To behold that with open eyes he can’t dare
A generation’s animosity
Precipitated without pity
He hears the pull of the trigger
A silent chuckle, a louder snigger
He knows his end is near
Heart filled with remorse and fear
He awaits mortality
That wait is eternity.
Over the hill, a new life begins
To elation and ache, a mother feels akin
With each throb and each kick
The breath of a new life flicks
It’s been a whole day’s pain
Enough to drive anyone insane
But it’s the mother’s love that bears patience
A new fulfilment, a cleaner conscience
Trying with all migh to push her out
Emotions and energy flying about
A woman in labour awaits beginnings pretty
That wait is eternity.
The emptiness seems endless
Only his name won’t cure the distress
As a girl caresses the letter
Of a lover in a faraway land feeling no better
The distance stretches on for miles
She wipes a tear from her cheek and smiles
Knows her sighs will not be enough
The past six months have been rather tough
She hugs her legs and dwells in memories
Her loneliness amid reminiscence she buries
A solitary lover awaits arms mighty
That wait is eternity.
