Ugochinyere Okoro
Ugookoro@cnenigeria.com
Sinking too deep to help myself
And I, so lost as one despaired.
My heart aches as much as pain.
Surely, this can't be in vain.
Sunk so deep I know I'm falling
How can this all be so enthralling.
Here, exists a weakening power
Sucking me in, so that I tire.
Blackness all around: tempting hue
That sends me spiralling through its groves.
Choking my conscience so that it dies;
Killing resolve so it may never rise.
It's dark here, need I say again
There's no fear where none is shared.
Though I lie to crave the crime,
It's a friend once it feeds the mind.
Falling so, why haven't I halted?
Maybe I know this craving is faulted.
Need a floor of hope to rest on,
Wishful thinking in an endless drop.