#MyPoems
Dear First Love, how are u doing today? I know U are fine, You are always strong, never weak.
Remember that very long journey I agreed to go with you sometimes ago, You will recall that I was so excited about the journey, i love the journey and I was happily telling anyone who needed to know that I am taking a journey with my Love.
Oh that day I agreed to this journey, I remember vividly, I was worried at first not knowing how far and how long the journey will be and knowing that I can't walk for so long, I wondered how I will be able to finish the journey with you.
Not many of my friends and neighbours
agreed to even escort us on this journey, they bluntly said they can't take the risk of such journey, so I became more worried, what sort of journey is this that most people feared to journey?
Out of curiosity I asked you if I must follow u on this journey to prove my love for You? U didn't answer yes or no you just cheered me to come along, so in my mind, I said i know the journey is far from the look of things, it cannot be less than a decade and maybe maximum of a couple of additional years, I decided that for my love, its not too long of a journey.
Because of the wound on my leg, I knew definitely that I can't walk that long, so I pleaded with you my love to carry me anytime my wound aches on the journey and you promised to carry me. (I was happy) so we started this sweat journey.
On the journey we saw a lot of animals, friendly and deadly, some really threatened me that I thought the journey will end right there but amazingly, You told me not fear the deadly animals, so I closed my eyes as we walked pass them, lo and behold, they couldn't hurt me, it was like magic.
I was excited about the journey so much that I invited my junior ones to follow us, plenty of them joined us o, I couldn't belief it, some of them said to me "If u could enjoy the journey this far, we too won't hesitate to join on the journey particularly the way you describe this journey makes it attractive to us"
Hmmmm My First Love, honestly this journey is becoming a misery, we have been on this journey for so many years, I enjoyed some part of the journey, I had to endure some as my wound keeps aching me at intervals, My love, it aches so bad, it bring me so much pain, immense pain!
I thought this journey will have ended by now, I thought it will last for a decade or a little more, it was because of my love for you that I dared the journey. Sweetheart, its been 19 years! 2 decades! and my wound will not stop paining me, right now it aches so bad, so hurting, it feels like fire locked up in a bottle, like a log of wood on a wool, I can't seem to push it away &sincerely I don't want to ask u to carry me again, I just want the journey to end! I am exhausted!
You know I still Love You and I will always do, but this journey,
Plenty things I would have love to have, I lost when they saw I was on this journey, I thought you will consider the seemingly beautiful things I have lost because of this journey, the names I have been called thinking I lost those beautiful things because of negligence on my part, I thought you will consider the pain I have been through having to walk barefoot for 19 years with wounds on my legs
Few people that I know who followed us on this journey have reached their destinations long ago, they have even forgotten how it feels to walk that long, some who joined you and I on this journey have also reached their own destination even when they started long after I have started the same journey with you, so they don't seem to understand why my love and I are still on this same journey.
Some say you are taking me to a very far away country, where my wound will be healed forever, where the best of life exist but I don't seem to be excited, I tried to convince myself to be but its not working.
So if I had to stop to nurse my wound for a while please understand, it is not because I don't love you anymore, it is because the wound on my feet have become bigger as the journey endured, the longer the journey the more painful the wound. Please allow me my love to take care of this wound, it is so painful, we will continue the journey when I nurse this wound if it is still possible, even if it is a first aid treatment please I need it.
I will chose 1 out of the many nurses who have offered to help me care for the wound to give me a first aid, just a first aid, I will not allow myself to be injected or admitted, just first aid I promise, please wait for me My first Love.
From Me,
The King's Daughter
Abimbola Aladejare
Your love.
