Friday, October 30, 2009

“Safe Zone”


Wrapped in self pity

She lives in constant tears

Entrapped in failure mentality

She treads on imaginary fears

Her world a virtual cubicle

Deficient of breathing air

To the darkness a tentacle

Enrolled herself by despair

Perennial pain she endures

In her safest zone


Her best friend, her Ego

Her side she departs not

When she lacks a place to go

Her mind is the best spot

They converse in a dialect

Only she and ‘herself’ know

She conforms not in intellect

A snub of the social flow

She is a lone runner

In her safest zone


Flaunting isn’t her fashion

Parading not trifle trinkets

Sororities hated with passion

Forbade touching the wickets

Her clique chosen with care

At the most they total two

Her burden if given to bear

Your own you wouldn’t too

A heroine indeed she is

In her safest zone


To hearsay she is deaf

Only lips show the motion

She partakes of no beef

That circulates in acclamation

Love, to her non existent

Her heart an empty shell

To it an active dissident

Hears no wedding bell

She clings on self adoration

In this safe zone


By Clifford B. Okumu

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