YESTERDAY

Yesterday Yesterday is blue begonias Planted in a purple vase beside my window Yesterday is a smiling moon in the sky It's a stainless cone on an empty shelf where there's an empty poems and prose to write, to read and to show dramatic lines. Yesterday is a lonely highway the road that leads to the lands of regret It's an artist with a quill, a board and colors Yesterday is a broken canvas, shattered dreams a bent pine tree where birds sit carefree. Yesterday is the rumbling wave of the deep blue sea a milestone founded under the long bridge where street children are tattered rags whirled by winds Yesterday is brown, pink, maroon and white It is an iroko tree where I was told a ghost lived where vultures took a turn to eat the dead Yesterday is the reggae song granny puts on repeat It is the thud of Mama's feet on blank nights when electricity is like fallen London bridge. Yesterday is a calendar, a date and a number It is a pallid gown worn by a trooping ghoul Yeste...