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I COULD STRETCH MY SKY
i could stretch my sky
until you see the gold
and blue
emerging in your sombre
overcasted view
i could send the swift gazelle
of my forever wandering soul
to sink deep footprints
in your desolated dune
i could sow the seeds
of love to grow bridal bouquets
over the bleak plains
of your unspoken restless dreams
i could do these and even more ...
but i would rather leave you
to your suffering and your pain
the desert rose blooms not in vain:
it was planted
and it is sustained ...
With moving "i"s, Myra creates enchanting anaphora. And indeed, this is the speech figure that powers the message of; "I COULD STRETCH MY SKY" Yet, it is a live giving metaphor that powers us through dreams and reality of what tribulations are and the truth of our having to go through them with our human weakness; but suatained by the loving care of God Almighty in every unfathomable sense: "the desert rose blooms not in vain..." Some rhyming end lines and enfolding quatrains strikes one with an air of that sustaining breath! Ugonna