LEAKING PAST

 Have your past ever come back to hunt you? Have you always thought you'd get away with something awful only to be revisited by it several years later? Read on cause this poem is for you

                                   LEAKING PAST

I thought it was over, I thought it was gone

I thought I had slipped out of the gates of my then created thorns

I thought you’ve disappeared and got carried away by the whirl wind

All traces of you I struggled to terminate

You bade me goodbye and declared cease-fire

But just yesterday at the wedding altar

In the presence of the congregation and my lover

You stormed the chapel with rank loaded guns

Like a smart bomb you smacked me

Shot me from every leading angle with no intention of leaving me for dead

Had me bagged in chains and lead me out like an exasperated felon

10 years ago it transpired

10 years ago you wrecked me

10 years you were surreptitious and I alone looked at myself with condescension

10 years ago I was a murderer

Unintentional it was

A stone throw on a stone throw

And that young lad got hit on the long run while I hid my face and took to my heels in sorrows

Yes it was his fate but mine has caught up with me

Who am I to think of having that ecstatic life when you exist?

I consent to whatever comes to me from here on even in my white veil of shame and humiliation

Now I know who controls the world

Her name is karma!