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Like This, Like That
The day I told her, “I’ve fallen in love”
She jokingly replied, “Did you fall
on the floor or on the ground,
Or on the sand or gravel?” I laughed
And laughed and restrained my laughter
But could not and would not restrain
My love for her.
The day I told her, “I love you”
She replied, “Why do you say you love me?
Are there no other girls you can see?”
But I had to tell her, “No one on the earth
Knows where he/she would meet his/her better-half”.
Is this not true?
The day I told her, “You are my love”
She replied, “Is it because of my laps
Showing on my picture you said so?
I heard a story of a man who saw
A girl’s picture on the magazine and said:
‘I love this girl! I want her to be my wife’.
But I had to tell her no, but because,
“She looks witty, comely and homely”.
The day I repeated, “I love you”
She replied, “If you say you love me
You are endangering yourself”.
I widened my eyes and winced
And had to tell her,
“If loving you is a crime,
Then, I am liable to be thrown
Into the prison, by no one else,
But you” because I dream of her.
The day she replied was, A LAUGHTER,
And we had to continue.
Though one could see me walking,
But I am not walking with a soul,
She has stolen my soul,
But far from being a thief.
Copyright 2006 Prince Odimegwu Onwumere
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Odimegwu Onwumere
Odimegwu Onwumere, a poet and an author, is the Founder, Poet Against Child Abuse (PACA), Rivers State , Nigeria . +2348032552855. apoet25@yahoo.com
If it's prose, he writes stories,
If it's poetry, he writes poems,
If it's drama, he writes screenplays,
And he has achieved some poetry nominations, in the USA and in Canada. He was born in Accra Ghana. A Nigerian by origin and is in his early thirties.
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