Dirge for my Earphones

 

You were my passport to solitude
Created a place of fortitude
Where I could smile, feel pain
A place where people not there
Made me sane.

 

In ur obvious absence, I brood
Remembering how with u
I needed no food.
Holding faintly to the hope of ur return
Like the uncertainty of a lunar eclipse
When the clouds turn.

 

This I pray, this I say:
Whoever finds u
Should fathom ur value
Extol ur virtues
Know ur worth
And like a little child
By u be taught.
Keeping u safer than I ever did.
Cos for u I'll forever feel a need.

 

 

By Alle Odhiameh Ayodele