Evening of marriage

….and we are in bed

together laughing

caring about nothing

As we lay in each other’s arms,

and sleep in each other’s dreams.

No one else but love.

We have made love,

raised the children

and yet, the house has no one

No one else but love.

As we lay on this bed we made

as the prime years go by

May our guests always remember

just like it was in the sunset of our love

when we just started out

so it is in the evening years

our coffee is still brewed with love

so are the doors to our home

May all those that walked with/alongside us

always remember it was nothing,

no one else, but Love….

In every song

2005 All the love songs were about them They shared a kind of love you see in hallmark movies It seemed scripted, yet came natural to them They made promises, …

Movie date ft POetE

POetE and i are doing something for a month. Missed his response to my first letter, read here https://deathofwords.wordpress.com/2022/09/13/in-the-valley-i-own-the-world-ft-kadali/ Dear E Kwanza, i do not wear red lipstick. Now i …

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Dear E, How do i unlove you when your eyes steal all my words away? You walk in and my heart dances to a different beat, you speak and my …

Hello stranger?

No, i dont know how falling out seems smooth with no reason. But i definitely know what it is with no energy for explanations. I miss her. I miss the …

Balm of love

I will never let you fall asleep wondering if I love you

It’s why I have built a home behind your eyelids

That every time you shut your eyes,

Even in my absence, you bring me home

I am am going to touch your soul and light a fire within

Teach me the lyrics of your heart so that I’ll sing your song

I will not give you apart of me

I will let your savor all of me

You will hear everything I have never said.

And i will keep your heart safe

Tucked away, faraway from pain and bad memory

We are a team,

Whatever you lack, I got you

I promise you better nights,

You got me, I got us

Drained.

I leaned in to kiss your soul

I hoped I would give you strength

But suddenly I remembered

It’s your cup I drink from

I am fueled by you

And now I sit besides you helplessly

Wondering and contemplating

Do I even deserve you?

I listen to you with my eyes

Deep down I know you are drained

Your strength can no longer hold both of us

Broken people break people

I have become the mirror you can’t fix

The burden you can no longer shoulder

Because I don’t even know what it means being at the well.

Hey, woman at the well,

Teach me how to draw water for my partner is drained.

Mine

Curled hair, blue eyes, pink lips

I could stare at him whole day.

Kiss him for eternity

His eyes like pearls

Maybe icy abit.

His gaze so deep, my soul flips

The smile,beaming

I could get lost in his face

Lose awareness of surrounding

All I see his him

Yet he is oblivious of my presence

He goes by like I didn’t even dress up

I try to meet his eyes in vain

His gaze is focused

Far away from me even when it looks like me

He stares at her like she is a precious stone

She doesn’t even look back at him

But the radiation of his smile

I know, he loves her with everything he has

But even then,

I will sit here like he is mine…

Hello Valentine

Dear cupid,

I think you need to be sent down here . We need some explanations for all the wrong matches made today. Did you see them at dinner, they wanted to kill each other. He brought the wrong Roses, she sat at the table with the wrong man (he was right until they actually had to talk. ) She just realised she didnt love him, she was in love with the idea of him.

And the wrong roses?

See, she isnt they type that loves flowers but also she couldn’t give him what he asked for simply because she couldn’t give what she doesnt have. It’s why when he went on his knee to ask she looked at her feet and counted her toes before she would walk off. But she told him and you didnt even hear her out.

Dear Cupid, for all the wrong matches you need to resign from the job. Dont argue! Didn’t you see the other two on the street, the walked in hand as her heart and mind were far away from the conversation, thinking of the one she wants but cant have simply because the one she likes also likes another and here she is , fingers locked with one that really loves her but she has no interest in!

Its chaos! And I guess you can’t do anything because the situation is out of control. Your arrows cant shoot no more maybe because technology redirects them. But as we paint the city red, singing you praises for those in love , we hope you look into the confused hearts and chaotic minds and resolve because everyone deserves to be happy

I love you

Dear you,

More than words might ever say, more than gifts might ever represent. I have loved you from the very first time I saw you. Eyes as bright as pearls and a smile so infectious. I wanted you to be mine and God answered every prayer I said every night after that. See how far we have come and how long we still have to go. We are going to smell the flowers, brew the coffee and paint the sunset together.

I love you. More than I ever planned, more than the prescription. I wish I was obsessed but I am in love and loving every bit of this love. I love you more than the sunrises and more than the roses that sit at my kitchen counter. Here, take my heart. Love it even when I am gone and can no longer dine with you on valentines, in your absence, I will love you like you are present.