marriage
Today is my 4th wedding anniversary , but we are going through a financially challenging time, so my husband and I both agreed not to spend any money on gifts for each other so I wasn't expecting anything special for today. To my surprise, when I came downstairs this morning, I found a bouquet of the most beautiful wild flowers that my husband had picked from a near by field at 6am. What a thoughtful and beautiful gift!
GENUINE AFFECTION
It’s about that time I usually bid my day a bye with a sigh of satisfaction escaping my closed lips. It doesn’t actually escape, it involuntarily sets itself free. The day has been long and tiring and trying to cope with Eve’s misdemeanor. She is the first of our species to find out that all that glitters are illegal or unworthy. The whole humanity now is painfully toiling in order to pluck the fruits and accord hunger a decent send off.
I slide my tired body, carefully, as if it hurt or afraid to disturb a nocturnal creature who had made a sojourn in my bed, inside my sheets. Relief greeted me, accompanied by a muted sigh as the mind went back to the parting day, assessing the successes and the pitfalls that came along. Lessons appeared triumphant.
The day is never a day-well-spent when you do not wish a dearly beloved a good night. I have had trouble many mornings preceding the nights I slept without bidding her a good night. I forget on purpose (ask any man) but the questions you get the morning after only allow her to make assumptions because I have never answered them satisfactorily. Now am thinking of her. She has brought the real meaning of living, the real feel of love. She genuinely adores me and I do more than her.
As a fumbled with the keys of my phone, trying to mix words, in a bid to come up with a deep poem for her, the phone rang. I smiled as I read ‘sweetheart’ as I had saved her. The ringtone helped increase the pace of my heartbeat. It was a song that drove her to the point of ecstasy, of course after me. So many times she rang me, often when I am trying to text her, or when am reaching for my phone to call her. Love brings forth pleasant coincidence, the kind that you want to happen every day.
I really love her. The joy of my life is to see her happy always. I don’t anything or anybody to harm her because I’m her soldier ready to fight every war that life pit against us. Distance though has robbed us the chance to show the affection eye to eye, hold each other close and our breathes being swallowed by our silent whispers heard far away. She is the realest thing I hold with utmost care like a treasure.
I picked up the phone and her soft voice drove me to world that surpassed the abundance of the bliss heaven had on offer. She tickled me into frenzy with an unsettling sensation going through my body like a ripple. I wanted her there and then. If the urge would have enabled men to grow wings I would have been the first one after Daedalus and Icarus, from the tales we read while growing up.
I listened as she talked making her know I was paying attention. Silence sometimes prompts one to make an inquiry if they are speaking alone or otherwise. What’s more beautiful than being missed by somebody you love? What’s the most awesome thing in the world than being important to somebody and being treasured more than you do to your own self? It’s a feeling that transcends everything.
The lengthy talk is always brought to a denouement by good night wishes and the sweet dreams. The byes aren’t my cup of tea. I always conclude a conversation with a ‘take care’. I never know why but I always want her to great care not dream of nightmares.
As the sound of the phone hanging up came through, I was plunged into my own world. I stared at the text I was about to send; my sweetheart, you are a rare being in the world for showing me what it means to love and I will give you my genuine affection…….it sounds like a teenage love letter but that was the message I intended to pass her, plus a couple of hugs and kisses, toppling with I love you. I drifted off holding my phone.
I woke up in the morning to find everything deleted except GENUINE AFFECTION on the text. I smiled knowing there was more truth than those two words.
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
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LOVE POEMS
The days gone by hold memories
So much of all those nice stories
Stories of our lives thereafter
Punctuated by your sweet laughter
Walking, talking under the starlit sky
Smiling silently without knowing why
Silent though we got so much to say
Assured that tomorrow would be okay
I love you so much my sweetheart
Like the abundance of sand in a desert
So is my love for you, so real and true
I want to live forever just for you
In the horizon the sun's just turned red
And my tomorrow is but a dread
If by your own, you won't be there
I will die, there won't be any air
The buzz of the phone beckons you attention
It's the love of your life trying to reach you
Friends have gotten tired of their mention
Their presence in this world gets you through
Long and stressful days just as the nights
On dark nights they are the light
It's an amazing feeling to find true love
It carries you way beyond imaginable lands
Swifter than the carrier doves
Infinite but it can fit in your hands
The amazing feeling of true adoration
Surpasses everything worth admiration
Sometimes am caught in a day dream
Dreaming of a dream I live everyday
It's been like this since I saw you
You beauty enslaved my imagination
The glitter in your eyes captured me
Every morning I wake up
It's your pretty face that's my alarm
Telling to rise up to see you
You are a true meaning of perfection
Forever I will be glad that are in my life
I wanna have your heart forever
Coz I've given you mine
Do the best with that you can
For you are so perfect
This love is the realest of al I've known
Like rose petals in the morning bloom
You sweep my feet off the ground
And I fly, fly like little bird making no sound
Am flying to get a kiss from you
Your embrace, the next best thing
After the gearless all night embrace
I see the meaning of life in your eyes
I see me and you skin to skin every night
I see life unfolding in your eyes
*IMMUNE TO HEARTACHE *
I'm staring at the emptiness you absence accords me
It's like all those days when I could fantasies about you
My breath being taken away by what I could see
But your absence is forever, I hoped you were true
I didn't think there would be a day when I could ask you to stay
And that would be asking too much of your precious time
Now I struggle to go through my days trying to keep you at bay
Often I fail, every time, coz forgetting you feels inhumane- a crime
For once in my life I realized what it means to be in love
It means to wait for someone to break your heart while holding on
It means being immune to all things that fall from above
Coz that may hold you from going on straight from dawn

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