Hope Written On The Sheets Of Fate
2019 Was one with so many wins,
2020 was the new page we were willing to open,
I had plans perfected to a fault,
The Blueprint looked very promising.
But in it, my first chapter didn't read "bushfire",
My plot wasn't hinged on a tragic one.
But I continued with the visitor,
I guess I went with the cliche, " You never can tell"
Surprises were never my thing
More like imaginative plots coming to play
At first, we thought it was a fluke
But as months passed by, it lingered
It was bound to rear its ugly head,
Though at first, we thought it was another plot twist,
But when he left us at the mercy of masks and sanitizers,
We firmly got the Memo - He was here to stay!!!
With deaths so much, we wished it could pause for a second,
And time could cease going so fast; we once did wish,
So with protective gears set in place, and our hearts drenched in heavy sips of coffee
Gloved hands raised towards the sky for intervention.
The clouds did bear witness to our prayers,
And for a split second, the heavens gave us a reprieve,
But as we were seeking to return to the status quo,
It came back for one more bite at the cherry.
Now, it is labeled as the new variant
Once again we beg that it eases away,
With our moods so solemn enabled with soulful music
We bask on hope to get us through
Maybe this will go with the passing year or not,
Either ways; let's see how the coming one will be,
We hope to have a smoother sailing this time,
Our hopes are duly checked in....
Author:
Amoye Favour
Amoye Favour draws from vivid Imageries, life experiences, and relationships when writing his pieces. Popularly known with the pen name “The Poetic Newton”, his works have been published and is forthcoming on issues of "The Literatus", " Maintenant", "Written Tales", " Masticadores", "Pickles Magazine" and many others . More of his works can be found on his Instagram handle @thepoeticnewton and whenever he is on the blue app,he tweets with the handle @amoyef