Tied

The breakup was inevitable 
The love was rogue love 
It wasn't meant to be 
It was one of those things 
Dead on arrival! 
They both grew up and pulled 
in different directions 
He was twenty when they met 
She was also twenty 
At that age she did what she 
thought was fun 
He was real fun and so was she 
They met at a friend's party 
They danced and exchanged phone 
numbers 
He was her second boyfriend 
The first boyfriend was a joke of sort 
She had a crush on the guy 
They kissed 
She lost interest after the kiss 
He never got around to asking 
her out as he should..
But she still called him her first 
She felt it would be odd telling people 
she had never really been in a relationship 
When he came for her at the party 
She didn't play hard to get 
She really liked him 
He dressed well and conducted himself 
responsibly 
He neither drank nor smoked
She liked that 
He also spoke eloquently 
He was someone she could spar 
with intellectually 
They had a lot of things in common 
It was very easy and reasonable 
for her to fall in love with him 
The only problem was his background! 
His family was dirt poor 
He was working as a cleaner
by day and a bartender by night to sponsor 
his education 
She wouldn't dare introduce him 
to anybody in her family as a friend 
She couldn't 
He had lofty dreams 
Sometimes he got into her head 
with his dreams 
He ignited her imagination 
And made her coo 
If there was one thing she could bet on! 
It would be that he would be a tremendous 
success in life 
He had the discipline 
The intelligence and the drive 
He had already won her friend's father over 
Her friend's father had promised to sponsor 
his university education if he passed 
as expected! 
She loved him
That first week 
Whenever he called her phone 
She would run into her room 
and lock the door 
She was too ashamed to let anyone 
know she was talking to him! 
It was awkward 
They were not birds of a feather 
She was born a falcon 
He was born an egret 
He was just not in her class...
They talked daily for two weeks 
One Saturday evening she went 
for a drive 
He called 
She told him she was driving around 
the estate 
He asked her if he could come to 
meet up with her 
She didn't know Lagos so well and 
didn't want to risk leaving the estate 
She told him where she was!
He arrived within twenty minutes 
They sat together in the backseat of 
her father's car 
He didn't see the money 
All he saw was her 
She liked that 
Everyone in her life 
Even her parents judged everything 
by its financial worth 
She did too 
But not him 
He didn't have enough to care
He kissed her 
His eyes shinning 
She knew she was giving him 
an achievement 
Something to boast about 
He would never have thought it possible 
were worlds apart 
He kissed her again 
She kissed him back 
The kiss was good but she sensed 
his hesitation 
He didn't want to go too far!
She guided his hands 
It was her decision to make and 
she had decided! 
Clothes were moved out of the way 
It was her first time 
It was his first time too 
A lot of fun and giggles 
They eventually fitted the key into 
the keyhole 
It was glorious 
They both eagerly cleaned up afterward
The tissue box in her father's car 
was exhausted 
It was fun He was the unthinkable one
She was the unthinking one 
He left her around 9 pm 
She went home giddy with joy 
The next day she panicked 
She thought she could be pregnant 
He told her not worry 
He was careful not to mess her up
Wow! 
He cared 
She wanted to do it properly 
She told her parents she was going for a show 
She went to a hotel and invited him over 
She satisfied herself with him Christmas day came 
They celebrated apart Her father hosted a party at home 
There was no escape at all She missed him!
She saw him on boxing day 
Another hotel 
They spent all day together 
She was supposed to be at the movies 
She and her parents went to their 
hometown for the new year party 
with the extended family 
She didn't see him for five days 
It felt like 50 years 
She returned home 
Time ran
They saw twice before she went 
back to the USA 
On the final day she wished him well 
There was no future for them 
He got it 
He said thank you 
She cried 
He told her she had done for him more 
than he could ever imagine 
She offered him some money 
He declined! 
That was how it ended
The following year 
She had graduated 
He was in 100 level! 
He was still a cleaner and a bartender 
She came home for the holidays 
She called him 
They did the dance all over 
They had to 
This time there was no teary farewell 
It was just sex! 
She left in January 
They both moved on!
She couldn't travel home for the 
next few years 
She needed to get her citizenship papers 
She met a guy 
A Nigerian guy 
She got into a serious relationship 
with the guy 
Marriage season! 
Time had diminished her sinful 
imagination about him 
She knew he would have moved 
on for real
She returned home in 2016 with her 
fiance to do her introduction 
She was twenty-six 
She last saw him when she was twenty one 
Her phone rang on a Thursday evening 
It was him 
Their conversation was full of joy 
and laughter 
Someone told him she was around 
He wanted to see her!
She went to see him 
He waited for her at the same hotel 
He had booked a room 
She told him she was engaged 
She felt it would dampen his interest 
He didn't act as if he heard her
He led her by hand into the room 
She shuddered with pleasure at his touch 
She couldn't make sense of it!
He made no demand 
They were ex-lovers 
And yet, it was as if they didn't stop 
She wanted to ask him what they 
were doing 
She didn't know how to define it 
What were they doing? 
When she got home she broke off 
her engagement 
She just couldn't go through with it 
She hated herself!
She traveled in January 
She didn't call him 
He didn't call her 
She returned in December 2017 
She tried to call him 
She has decided to have a talk 
with him this time 
Define what they were doing #
His phone number didn't go through 
His family had moved 
She searched all over the social 
media for him 
Typed several variations of his name 
on google 
He was gone 
She fell ill throughout the holidays 
She was just miserable 
On January 3, two days before she 
would go back to the USA 
The old students of her secondary school 
were having a reunion 
She decided to attend
Her car got faulty on her way to the venue

It suddenly stopped working as 
She was driving through a residential area
due to traffic 
Her car stopped just by the main gate of a building 
She popped the bonnet 
The gate opened 
Someone wanted to drive out 
Her car was on the way 
The person approached her
It was him 
It was crazy 
He invited her into his flat 
He called his mechanic 
As soon as she stepped into his flat 
She started crying 
It felt so good to see him 
He hugged her 
The mechanic came and fixed the car 
The car was parked properly 
She returned to his flat ...
Sound of music
She didn't leave his flat that night 
She took him home the next day 
She introduced him to everybody 
as her man 
He was happy 
He proposed as he drove her to the airport 
She said YES! 
Ps: They are getting married this Saturday 
14th December 2019
She said he was always an eagle, 
she just didn't see it