The Life Without You

The life without you is like a tree without flowers, the moon without the stars, a kiss without lips, long wandering love, the weary heart may faint for rest, and a body without soul... The life without you is like a drifting foam of a restless sea when the waves show their teeth in the flying breeze, and wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. The life without you is like village curs that bark when their fellows do, a shadow of a great hill, that reaches far out over the plain, and the setting of a tropical sun. The life without you is like a sea-worm, that perforates the shell of the mussel, which straightway closes the wound with a pearl, and rainbow, thou didst fade. The life without you Is like a blossom blown before a breeze, a white moon drifts before a shimmering sky, and my memories burn like a living coal in my soul. By Seth Yuhi Musinga