Henry Akuete: My Poems and some

Oh cupid,take this humble offering of tears and sorrow I bring To your ethereal alter on high And heed ye my mortal supplications Born from lonely and cold summer nights out of the misty depths do I cry A poor soul I am yearning for a sigh of love Pull ye out a fiery arrow from your quiver Filled with the coveted seed of love And with it take aim at my mortal heart Piercing it with the sweet immortal venom of gods That I may have love and feel the ecstasy Long felt by the lofty occupants of olympus On this day cute cupid Send the one that will take me to immortality for love remains eternal hereafter When flesh erodes to lie waste a mortal I know mine is out there though I see it not Touch my heart and let be gone the pain of loneliness Strike me and light the fire long come from the flight of your kin prometheus Find me love and keep me alive For death is all left for the lonely and loveless....

On I walk a lonely pilgrim Through life's road dark and cold Been on this long journey a while Since I woke from an unknown slumber On a quest for what I do not know I search with compulsive imperative Through murky and misty quagmires I meet the good, bad and deadly Where it leads I can not say Through many turns I lost my north I once was a young man when I walked Now the dust of age cover my skin I saw vanity come my way Yesterday when I took a queer turn Today I saw the stain of sin On my cloak when I sat to rest Call me lost if you know the way Through this gruesome wilderness Point the lonely finger down the road Where four points collide to confuse me For on I must persevere to proceed As my bones despair in a single place The road keeps me from the pits of insanity The road is all that I live for The pilgrim road where my mortal existence finds along a convoluted and paradoxical definition If they ask where I am someday Tell them I am still on