Lone Gem So Rare

I tried hard to eclipse you from my mind When you claimed I disgrace manhood you find In someone else so different from my kind. I wondered what you meant not to have seen In me after I had entered the scene Which you had not wished it there to have been. I swallowed the insult for fault was mine To have loved before I could take a fine Look with clearer eyes not as red as wine. I wined down the disgrace and drew the screen Hoping to let the luster of your sheen Evade my heart that none else can keep keen. Try as I would I hardly could resign From your chaste breast where all my thoughts design An oval throne Cupid’s arrows refine. Thus I come begging you now not to wean Me so soon from your milk of love I mean To savour forever and not go lean. Cuddle me dear love in your gentle care Since in you I find a lone gem so rare. Yaounde, 05/03/08