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<figure id="attachment_8355" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8355" style="width: 426px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/milady-in-red.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-8355" alt="Milady In Red" src="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/milady-in-red.png" width="426" height="346" loading="lazy"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8355" class="wp-caption-text">www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry<strong> [Milady In Red]</strong></figcaption></figure>
<p>She basks<br>Beneath my <a class="zem_slink" title="Mind" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">mind</a>’s profundus<br>Her tentacles<br>Wrap around my sub-conscious<br>Like an insistent lover<br>Wittily gaining on my mind<br>Like a festering <a class="zem_slink" title="Putrefaction" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putrefaction" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">putrefaction</a></p>
<p>Twilight hours<br>As the sleepy sun reclines to the west</p>
<p>With a melodious falsetto<br>She coos my secret name<br>Sweet deceit sets my heart aflame</p>
<p>She bids me to <a class="zem_slink" title="Gaze" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaze" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">gaze</a> upon life’s flora<br>And acknowledge only its spiky thorns<br>Yet others gaze upon the same<br>And acknowledge the “Rose-ish” petals<!--more--></p>
<p>In my world of living nightmare<br>She makes me stand astare,</p>
<p>Solely on one side of life’s bi-faced Coin<br>And all I see is the tail<br>With Lailophobia’s shawls about my loin<br>That I may stutter and fail</p>
<p>Then I gaze upon the night sky <br>For signs of better days to come<br>But she zooms in <br>On the darkest patches<br>And conceals the silver linings</p>
<p>Her philosophies<br>Remains implacable as winters<br>Shreds my faith into splinters</p>
<p>Confiscate my hidden hopes<br>And from a cliff’s precipice<br>They constantly are flung<br>Beyond the edge of sight</p>
<p>Our mutual abode keeps me constantly in the reins<br>As her sweetened venom now patrol my veins<br>Like emissaries of a malignant carcinoma<br>Sowing seeds of chaos in “metastasia”</p>
<p>But who is milady in red?<br>My Lover… ornate Mistress<br>Facially: impassively bloodless<br>As if she was sculpted from snow<br>Frigidly clammy and devoid of glow</p>
<p>She was birthed<br>By the ancient midwife: Fear<br>In the deepest forges<br>Of my labyrinthine mind<br>That little “cub” I brought to life</p>
<p>She suckled… <br>Upon <a class="zem_slink" title="Doubt" href="http://doubt-themovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="homepage">Doubt</a>’s aged breasts<br>The babe in my minds cradle<br>Has grown to be my arch-nemesis,</p>
<p>Enslaves my guts to shy away from obligations<br>To raise the white flag at the face of temptations</p>
<p>Her bloodshot eyes<br>They stare at me<br>From across the mirror</p>
<p>My bitter love song<br>Without a harmony<br>I sing it loud and long <br>In dread matrimony</p>
<p>As man and wife <br>To share one body,<br>With the greatest foe that has ever been,<br>The deadliest enemy that thrives within</p>
<p><em>*NOTE: This work is a purely fictional piece aimed at buttressing two main truths I’ve come to realise:</em><br><em>1. That the <a class="zem_slink" title="Possible world" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possible_world" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">actual world</a> a man lives in is not the palpable geographical mass that he thrives in, but the world that he creates for himself in the deepest part of his Mind</em><br><em>2. That our greatest foe is neither the <a class="zem_slink" title="Devil" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Devil</a> nor the people that wish us ill fate in life, but a critical component of who we truly are…it poses a greater threat to one’s <a class="zem_slink" title="God" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">God</a> given purpose in life…like a distinct personality entwined with the REAL you, this threat I choose to call Milady In Red.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Written by: Okechukwu Elosiuba Rhema</em><br><em>Edited by: Kukogho Iruesiri Samson</em></p>
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