A Congolese Okapi Brings Me Your Love Letter

A Congolese okapi brings me
 Your love letter,  darling !
You decided well to not  send
 It via the sky this time.
You said that you want to see me,
Face to face.
Oya! Well done darling,  
My future wife! 

You are so rarely 
Like a  Congolese okapi !
You are most  beautiful 
Like an  African peacock! 
I think you won't faint 
When you will see me
Because I am not handsome. 

No one will call you a robber
 If you succeed to steal my heart.
No person will call you lazy girl
 If your one look provokes
Earthquake into my entire body. 
I don't know how I will be feelling
Seeing  the moon in my house  daily. 

My late grand father used to say,
  " A man can achieve   
Many things when he is in love." 
My grand mother always said,"
 If you knock on the wrong door,
 You find a bad girl and 
You will  be finished." 
I am already a victim 
As I knocked on  a wrong door earlier.
I think you will not mess up
My hard achievement.
I think you will always be poetry
In my entire life.

By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe 
            Mussabwa Chris
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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