before you said your final goodbye

you felt like picking up the fragments
and grains left of your shattered life
and starting all over again...
again from that spot where the world bolted
tightly the nuts of your heart

you felt there were a thousand men in your head-
five hundred on both sides
tugging with your ligaments
tearing apart those elephant emotions
bragging with the muscles of your brain

that very moment you felt like
borrowing legs from a cheetah
not needy of it
and running ahead of time
to a place of total seclusion
ahead of things hip-hoping on your mind

you felt like stuffing you and your worries
in that empty seashell on the sands of that beach
by that seaplane you alone could see
and sharing in her sunburns;
and that very moment, you felt like
tasting the sane wine lettered in insanity

then you see you flying out of space
in a stolen spaceship
where you again lose your firm grip
and you drop..., falling and falling and falling
till you wake up from
that big dream called life

before you said your final goodbye

iyeomoan ehizogie