ToNiNg

TONING
Edem Fodeka
Like a daily pill for the sick
Like how the Earth
Receives kisses
Of light from the sun
I looked at her with love
I watched without a blink
Her beauty was deeper than the well
Like a diamond
Her skin radiated prettiness
Were she a flower
Like the bee
Her abode my bed would be
Were she a school
I’d love to trail
And never graduate
But today
Her skin has become
Like a banana
Peeled without remorse
Exposed to erosion by chemicals
Drenches deep like the ones
Created by Volcanoes
Has she dug on her attractiveness
All in the name of toning
Her skin withers
Like dying roses
Like fragments of bones
Under water
Her look now like a dungeon
Where her veins cry for help
Cos’ cold eats them
Without favour
Corrosion is taking place
Just like how bananas melt
Probity~1
He wants to be the national theatre of attraction.
He wants to direct all eyes to his skin
Which should beam with radiance like sunrise.
So he avoids the cream;
It will leave traces of the fake golden skin.
He takes the pill like his life depends on it.
Now, he looks glorious like a ghost
As closer zooming looks
Reveal the bright dark spots
That once hid in the night of his skin.
He feels being butchered and burnt
As the sons of the sun seem more merciless
On him than others.
He now wears friableness,
Living the life of an egg;
A crate of crying and dying tomatoes
Trapped in a masculine figure.
The armour of his fragile skin is gone
And now he feels he was never born.
Edem Fodeka
Featuring
Prince Litela Agbemedu (Probity~1)
Well done folks.
Just found out there is a pill for toning…lol.
Interesting.
Hahaha.
There is.
Thanks.
Nice one, guys.
It’s not for nothing the saying goes , ‘All that glitters is not gold ‘. Congratulations for reminding us again.
Thanks