Allow me to roll: A love poem

My dearest,

Allow me to roll…

Today my pen won’t dance as it’s used to,

Whatever I say it has to do-

Inscribing the ideas cooking in my oven,

The vocabulary highway better remain open

As your portrait in front inspires me often

I’ll start with a disclaimer

Lest you say my love sounds calmer

In school I was ever curious

And never took language classes serious

Of course that was until I met you

And then you made me think anew

So fresh & innocent u looked, then!

So much that my ego stooped, men!

And that’s how our love story started

And no one was afraid of being busted

How can I forget those former days?

And girl did we cross each other’s ways?

How can I forget the long long walks, thereafter?

Memories of the bridge in low love talks, the laughter?

Though mostly meeting at night,

Sure we did it right

For those who do it wrongly,

History will judge them harshly,

Dear, do you know

That your beauty does glow

Oh yes it does!

And the flame never dies!

It’s a beauty interweaved from the inside

And then intertwined with the outside

A beauty not only imbibed from the smile

To get it I sure had to run more than a mile

I consider myself luckiest

For of all maiden I have the fairest;

Even Belmont hasn’t produced one so finest!

Indeed many wonder how we came together

As usual, I let them guess it like the weather

My dear-this journey has the two of us

And God-the driver of our bus

So ignore the mass

And let’s do the love BODMAS

B-put you and I in (brackets)

O-Obeying God’s commands

D-Divide trouble and blessings equally between us

M-Multiply the love & respect for each other

A-Add friends and issues that add value

S-Subtract them who celebrate at our slightest downfall

Enough of the rhyming

Let me say why I’m writing

For my candle is slowly dimming

And the ink threatens of ending

In this year’s valentine, let’s let our love shine

Though we may not celebrate with wine

Isn’t it enough that u are mine-and I, thine?

Let’s love relentlessly

Showing affection endlessly

Bye bye my beautiful and lovely, My one and only

Assuredly u are never lonely-for behold, I am here...

(C) Peter Mwangangi 2012