Desires That Battles Within Us.

It has been ages, slowly, I rise and take in sparrows of breath
Now all I do, is to sit and reminisce the blest old days
The times when I had it all
To and fro I whence
West and East they all came
Yes, I was a paragon of desire
I was young, sturdy and beautiful
Contoured like Hercules, swifty was my tact
I blazed grandeur and relayed seizure to all that set eyes
On me, I was the demon of beauty and god of fantasy
I plunged stern ecstasy into all at my grasp
Yes, I was adored, I was yearned for, and all who had
Me, had the fill, brimmed
I was the Handsomest Apollo, dear Artemis would always
say, “oh god of beauty”
I shone like the sunrise, my complexion dim like the
Dusk of day
There was all, there was glory
Now I age and famine in thoughts
Now all there is, is the picture of my youth
The desire that battle within me,
Oh! what great lust.

Victor Onyebuchi Ikwuazom hails from Anambra state, a native of umudei in Onitsha.
Victor, a student of Chukwuwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, an undergraduate of the Department of English language. He is a seasoned poet and critic, a lover of poetics.

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