ADIHA (A POEM)

ADIHA ( Hade's Abode)

The night Ma died from the deadly disease,
the eerie hoot of an owl jolted me awake.
I was ten and afraid
I felt numb from the pain
Of not seeing Ma again
I couldn't stop the hurt I felt
It was a large wound but at a tender spot ;
My heart.

Seventeen years ago,today I was born
And the owl hooted again
I was prepared for the worse
But never expected the worst
Who prepares for such?
The women's eyes bespoke my suspicion
Suddenly, I heard a loud cry from a far place
I couldn't tell if that was me.
Orphan they said. It tasted bitter in my mouth,
My tender spot groaned again
And the wound grew bigger.
Fresh tears seeped out of my weary eyes
Words of comfort were like sands thrown into the air
And it disappears.

Few days to my twenty fourth birthday,
I was married but I knew soon enough
That I wouldn't be.
The sight of his frail body on the bed
Saddens my racing heart
Not in excitement but in fear of what may come.
The moonlight mirrors my expression
It was dimmed by the crawling clouds
But mine was flawed by the horrors which my eyes have seen
I turned away quickly from the window,
As the owl rested its feet on the old fence
Averting its piercing devilish gaze
I clamped my ears shut as it cried out loud into the quiet night.
Then I became a widow!
Widow! The word tasted sour in my mouth.
They ask themselves "whose house did Hades visit? "
"Adiha's"
My home became Hades abode

What a wretched soul I am?

It's been three score years
that I've lived in this anguished earth,
Alas! Fate seemed to smile sadly on me.
For Hera gave me an ailing son;
nevertheless a son,
Whom I doth on day and night
As I do now, watching his body go limp
As the owl hooted into the cold night.
I let out a piercing scream that echoed loudly
But no one came,
Who wanted to comfort Hades abode?

Thinking about all I had lost,
Never to be retrieved
Before Hades would swing by again,
Why don't I pay him a visit? 

©Zoe
Edited by Alpha