The Sunday Mail (Zimbabwe)

The Dark Light aka The P-poem

- Students can send their short poems or stories to princemush­a@gmail.com or zhawibrigh­ton@gmail.com

WHAT consumed me was what I could see, The dark light that looked so real.

It was an attraction I could feel, That kept me away from a kneel.

It was this sweetened evil attraction that whispered in me to take a chill,

Whenever change tried to talk to me.

Under the vision of the dark light, Life was good, or at least I thought it was. I could see beyond its rays,

Except it was what I wanted to see, not what was real.

See, the dark light had a trick of its own, A way of turning fake into fate.

Under the guidance of the dark light, I became the very opposite of what I was meant to be.

A predatory expert of destructio­n instead of being a precursor of pacificati­on.

A prey to darkness that was devoured like a prawn instead of praying without ceasing and preaching the precious words.

The dark light was prerogativ­e in making me believe that my preconceiv­ed ideas were nothing but nothing.

Somehow, I believed that I was predestine­d to be no one and somehow, I was okay with it because this dark light was faithful to me, it never stopped shining . . . Or . . . Did it?

What the dark light underestim­ated was that I was preordaine­d.

My true one, the one with the purest of lights was well prepared of this predicamen­t.

With no warning, he precipitat­ed his mercy on me.

He poured his love that soaked me with precision.

His righteousn­ess clothed me into a prime. He broke the padlock that held me prisoner,

And he paddled me to safety.

I was not a lovely sight to see,

But, he made me into a Primrose, out of me is a panorama that is full of beauty.

Now . . .! Like a photosynth­etic plant under phototropi­sm,

I grow towards his light,

Like a photovolta­ic cell, I lay still, feeding upon the brightest of lights, a light that is forever faithfully illuminati­ngly visible.

My path is clear now, as I press on towards the priceless calling,

For when the precious light set me free, I was free indeed.

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