IKULELE’S BED OF ROSES

After the sun has completed his 

Voyage across the sky of day and 

The moon appears in all her splendour

To rule the night with her calm and mystery;

After the rooster crows it’s last with

The advent of evening,

Friends wave goodbyes and turn 

To go separate ways;

 

There rises a silence that is more 

Dead than death

And bears such a resonating sound that 

Threatens to drown out the screeching cries of

The suffering souls in hell.

A silence so heavy that only the strengths of

Gods combined can lift.

 

It snakes in slowly and cunningly,

Scanning for the best moment to strike

And render Its victim perpetually miserable

And incapacitated. 

It steals in to take dominance of Its new

Habitat and render the host useless. 

 

Ikulele walks in glory.

His gait bearing the likeness

Of his father and his soul so radiantly 

Pure, it resembles that of a newly born babe.

He bears his mother’s beauty in his eyes

And greets friends with a smile that 

Comes from a place of purest intents.

His life is a bed of roses and as every Rose 

Has its thorn, he has his silence. 

 

When the gong strikes and the market 

Stalls close down for the day’s enterprise,

Ikulele reunites with his silence, 

One that bears the same troubling calm  

That haunts a forgotten grave. 

The silence steals away his joy

And puts in its place the tragedy mask;

It tames him and makes him a jester at It’s court.

 

When the morning comes, 

The silence grows weaker 

-but gets strengthened by 

seconds of mental

Teleportation in the day- 

Until the sun grows weary

From his harsh rule and makes way for 

The quiet and mysterious 

Diamond-adorned sky to take her place. 

She majestically leaves when her time is due

To let the sun rule with harsh hopefulness. 

The silence has to leave with the night, but

The ticking of the clock and the beating 

Of the rhythm of Ikulele’s heart according to 

His alloted time gives the Silence confidence 

To do as much damage as can be done 

Before redemption or damnation.