MY LOVE by Lanre AyoolaIHold my hand and let us runswiftly in this pure rude ruddy sunand trap sparkling dreams in cloudy bluecalling me and you.We can sit here on the cold sand barand search the sky for the fainted starthe seal of our doting bindswatching us behind the whitish blinds.Can you hear the calling echoes?Telling tales of our falling foesThe eyes of envy on our fostered penchantBlinded for ever like a greedy merchantLet us not hide in shades of nightsWhere lay tempting wrongs in ghostly rightsThe light shining there is our friendTo keep our love firm to the end.Now, my nose sniffs a rosy scentas your head wafts a hairy rentI wish your hair grow in my handas we race the nuptial island.Shall we rove far and wide?Laugh tinkling jokes as we glideclose our eyes into the silent withinand whet the ardour blooming.In your eyes are coals of diamondsI desire decades in their bondsI am not a man of treasure…Forever with you is my pleasure.IIShow me your heartI will tread with caution its paththey call me the gentle manand in you I see a gentle woman.Here, in my heart, trystmy soul is void of the manly beastI shall keep you unscarredfor our love is sacred.Would you smile?If I am gone for food far into the milePromise me, would you?Without, life is without clue.Would you give me your grief?That we could both cry to reliefthat I may find strengththat you may find breath…Come, let us nudeForgive me, this unintended lewdI seek not the strip of clothesBut the past drowned in loathes.Should we not our careless pastUnhidden and nakedly cast?For there is no future builton a ground miry with guilt.Whisper into my sickly seeking earsSweet words I had sought for yearsand in the streams of this grey lightLove, be in my dreams tonight.IIILost from the orb in the firmamentSparkles of rays pinned your garmentObsessed in a flood of funfor your charm is a sunny pun.I see a place in the crux of your heartFurnished in a special craft and artA throne fashioned in the hue of loveAnd a crown in the feathers of a doveI feel something trace the rails in my bonesThese tributary of crude hormonesLuring burning lustful essencePlease, bind me with cuffs of patience.I am a man and potentYet, I desire this libido ace latentTill my love for you is ringedwe shall copulate closely winged.Shall I ask?Find not my sought answer a taskfor I perspire a fear…Your love only can take care.When lost to the curiosity that befalls menWould you my heart grave with the love pen?Would you forgive my manly errs?And gift me to wisdom, forever hers…If I dance to the music of angerwould you pilot this love a safe hangar?When you find not in me an angelwould you save me from the fists of hell? IVI fear looms of disappointmentsfor my muse holds hidden in selfish momentsI sweat in my roam for worthy inspirationcould I be broken of words for your adoration?Restless fingers riot my trembling strandsand I feel a lump growth in my ardent glandsthe rhythmical breeze laps me a scorching coldnessIt is your voice wrapped in a whispering goodness.Love, I find not my passion on beds of booksIt is here in your eyes, in beautiful rosy looksMy bondage embraces a timely looseAnd there, in a staunch smile, lies my muse.We will fly away somewhere far and safeIn twiny wings from this world of pain and griefLast night, you called me your fatherI fetched relief that I have got in you a mother.I shall bring you soulful beats of ardourAnklets on your fine feet to adoreI know the wield of dance in spaceAsk… They know me well in the market place.This love of ours is fine and facelessshall we go blind blinder and remain flawless?Season not this race with gamesAnd char not these feelings in fleeing flames.We shall camp at the shoulder of the oceanAnd draw its sweetness to ease our tensionAt the peak of my hearty castleI shall sing of your love to the windy whistle. Written by Lanre Ayoola