My Love is Pure

Through the deluge, I will make you float
In the cold nights, I will be your coat
One thing’s for sure
My love is pure.

Through the valley, I will be your guide
On the mountains, you will be my pride.
Old things are past
This love will last.

Through the fire, I will make you glow
In this garden, I will make you grow
This is my pact
And it’s intact.

Through all senses, you are all of me
In this mirror, you are all I see.
We need no glue
This love is true.

Through all seasons, I’ll be by your side,
in the waiting, will you be my bride?
Don’t second guess
Please just say yes!

Copyright Adeleke Adeite 2019

Image credit: wwbuzz.com (Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez)

Loss and Lies

We sold our soils to buy their skies.
We sold our tongue to buy their lies.
We see our own truth lurking in their eyes,
who is foolish and who is wise?

We sell our sons to buy their stars.
We sell our sun to buy their scars.
The skies beneath our feet are warm…
and the soil above us rages with storm.

We run after the enemies behind us
only to find our friends right in front of us.
we fight to flourish but we were never planted…
a generation that after birth was slowly aborted.

I hear the silence of the seed of the womb…
and the wailings of the whirlwind in the tomb.
Echoes of errors reverberate with lessons
for the weak and strong to learn in due seasons.

We were never lost but said to be found…
someone picked us up from a gloomy ground…
We were stars, not to be found in miry clay,
How we got there is not a story for another day.

We sold our soil to buy their skies.
We sold our tongue to buy their lies.
We see our own truth lurking in their eyes,
Who is foolish and who is wise?
Copyright Adeleke Adeite 2016