Whispering Night - Duet by Ayobami Ayanfemi & Stefn Sylvester Anyatonwu

Sound rattling and rabbiting,

whirling and hissing,

moaning and sobbing

in pleasure and pain

Torrents trampling on rooftops

Like vultures in love

Dancing to the waste line

Of beats on your waistline

Torturing my hairstyle

Twisting my royal band,

Milling watery salt with rancorous smile

into my running engine.

Hissing eyes

Whispering legs

Confusion resides

Behind the shadows of your smiles

Tell me, is this a haunted house?

Your hunting scheme lies underneath my linen,

Stilling in me unexplained words

that counts while pouncing,

You plunged in me spears and recover my fears.

You drop defiled tears

Over the dates of my years

Years of haunting air

Air of non feasible dreams

Dreams like broken spears

Into your heart pierced.

Tell me, why do you bleed?

Why won't I bleed seed of words

Words of many wars

Wars of no cutlass and guns

Guns of bullets and shield

Shield of pain and sorrow,

so tell me why the whisper by this ungodly hour?

Shhh!

Don't wake the gods

Lest you get bitten by dogs

Dogs of our fears

Fears behind the walls

Walls cracked for long

Long before tonight...

Tell me, why do we whisper

And hush our heartbeats?

Doth he who lurks outside

Out smart our aged wits?

Why won't I wake the gods

gods that sleep not

Not in dreams and reality of things

Things of nothing and something

Something that silently break walls between us,

Your whisper whistled and cracked an egg in my heart

Heart of soft petal,you know.

Know yourself, dear friend

In you is a monster

Waiting to unleash on the braggart

In you is 'godling'

Waiting to bully the bully

Who's reduced our shrieks to whispers

Whispers of frightened puppies...

Know thyself and unquiet the night

I have listened to bells of the night

And shut down the tears of the light

Changed the hands of time

Tried many times fuse of rhymes,

I unleashed monsters

But were devoured before they mold a star.

Lean on your whispers tonight

When dawn knocks dusk off the sky

Come tell tales how you survived

And mortals shall hiss and sigh

At your whispering tales

Can the whispering night bow to my voice?

Can the voice speak silently without echo of the night?

If I have to win a fight

Then it must whisper right in the night.

Hush!

Whisper!

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