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After You Left
An Elegy for a Love Betrayed Beneath the Nigerian Sky
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After You Left
I loved you past the harmattan’s pale breath,
Past Lagos rains that drummed upon the roof;
I called your name through nights that tasted death,
And swore your heart would be my lasting proof.
We walked where red earth stained our naked feet,
And shared our dreams beneath the iroko tree;
Your voice was once the song I’d wait to meet,
Your eyes, the only home I wished to see.
But love, like garri left beneath the rain,
Can swell with water, yet remain undone;
You traded all our years for someone’s name,
And left me speaking to the setting sun.
Now, when the evening calls the village home,
I mourn not you—but who I was when loved.
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Ifure Udominyang ✍️✍️✍️
