The sun can set at sunrise,
when grief kicks in like a vice.
Grief is an unwelcome visitor that overstays her welcome,
bringing a museum of memories tagged to her waist;
classic paintings of loved ones,
a string of lost siren melodies inked all over her chest;
a sign that things will never be the same.
Grief is a guest that never fully leaves,
awfully weaving memories of love and pain.
You sit staring at empty spaces,
where only silence lingers
in the theatre of loneliness…
Stop staring and look in her eyes!
She’s stealing your tomorrow;
brick by brick as she settles in,
Building a fortress of sorrow
where love and happiness used to dwell.
Courage Elisha Karuma is known for his thought-provoking and emotionally rich work, written from a passion of exploring human experience. He has been crafting poems since early teenagehood with hopes of uplifting readers and the society as a whole on a global scale. Courage published his first joint adventure with RuvaraShe Creative Writes on an anthology titled “Not ForgotTen, Remembered with Love”. He has so far managed to craft more poems after that. A former Msiteli High School student who just fell in love with word-crafting. His work is highly reflective of social commentary, weaving together themes of love, religion, identity and spirituality.