By Victor Uzodinma Chukwuma
80. Love Lost III
Like night
she held and enveloped me.
But now, where am I?
Am walking in moon lit betrayal
from roulette wheel.
Head down and torn,
a worn-out warrior,
a devastated gladiator back,
back from erotic defeat
Now is day, and I can see
so let me see not emotional craving
let me see hope
I want to pick up my shattered entrails
and move up and on.
81. Love Lost IV
We stood side by side
lost images
by the lagoon shore.
We stood watching
the moon play on the wave crests.
Here we are in our own labyrinths lost.
Lost because of ourselves
I wonder what we are
by the lagoon?
With fallacy in our hearts
and our flesh an interlocked chain,
really we are lost.
Victor Chukwuma, Professor of Physics, renowned for his immense contribution to the development of Astronomy and Space Science in Nigeria, is a Fellow of the Astronomical Society of Nigeria and the Nigerian Institute of Physics.
