This place of my Love
Is a quick sand with tourist attraction
Like a self-aware mouse knowing
That this cheese will be the death of me
.
What do I do
When the one who breaks my heart
Is still the one that possess it?
.
Yet in her hands, the shattered pieces
Are like fragment of rubies
The hopeful fragrance of crushed roses
.
Why do I keep dashing through this mine fields
With a dagger to my hearth
Oh! What brilliant folly
.
Seeking the meadows of bliss
In the birth place of pain
The oasis of comfort in the deserts of despair
The isle of affection in the tempest of disdain
.
This place of my love – where vapours of sorrow
Leak through my eye pores
When the flames of passion melt love into disasters
.
I wonder how God does it
Continually, consistently chasing
The very ones who keep rejecting Him
.
Lover Boy Alpha
Lovelorn Omega
.
This lost love of mine Is an allegory to His
Oh teach me love Abba
A lesson in heartbreak is not enough
.
This pain of mine; to Him
Is all too familiar
Betrayed, deserted, forsaken
.
Even I abhorred His advances
Yet irrespective of who was wronged
He kept coming, He kept proposing
.
But unlike him, I aint no perfect lover
Measured and weighed; found flawed, found wanting
So my lovepire was stolen from me
.
But like His prophecy
I wish this narrative ends the same
That the chasing is peaked at a feast
Of a bride adorned – worthy of a king
.
Teach me love Father
Let me too taste her sweetness
in the dawn of her victories
.
So for the lily that grows
Only on this treacherous plane
I will come
.
For the wine that flows
Only when I’m pressed
I will come
.
For the aroma that is released
Only when I am crushed
I will come
.
For the me
That only you can enact
I will come
.
For love
I will come
.
For you
I will come
Originally published on PoemHunter on 2 January 2018.