My sight love though roaring past a lot of water has passed under the bridge
Could not let go my heart the electrifying, inundating feeling you stirred in it long ago
In the citadel of my heart relent could not your wound-rubbing-salt love’s siege
My dove, away that opted to rove,
what a misfortune in the catalog of my romance woe.
My object of desire, to ember could not change in my heart you ignited fire
Although time and distance estranging us treated me cruel reducing me to a fool
Pursuing you in my wet dreams at night and daydreaming about you I will not tire
Because gauging possible love mates against your merits I’ve made it my rule.
Turning the clock back I hallucinate to follow you sniffing your track
You might have metamorphosed to a lady, a mother
As would have it ill , to date, my eye candy you are what I lack
About my existence, unaware or indifferent you may not bother.
Fate reversed had you be mine, and me thine
Ecstatic my life would have been fine.
BY ALEM HAILU G/KRISTOS
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD SATURDAY 24 AUGUST 2024
