Njeri Hunjeri Poet Free verse

I Never Knew How To Love

wouldn't it be a perfect day
the day we meet eye to eye
under the sun's beautiful gaze
of two souls meant to be one

i in my many tethered imperfections
transcended into a one crowned perfection
and you with you deep voice of a broken man
transformed into a newly created Adam 

i've had my sour shares and slashes
puckered lips on camera shots followed by heartbreaking first dates
translucent skin tights of a hopeful love
selling what I didn't have, a "love" that I never had
blindly developing into another statistic 
     the single and unhappy
phobic to the advancing age and the biology of things
angry at how my bad girl girlfriend would end up with a great catch
yet my little bad girl catwalks threw me in a ditch somewhere 
and worse my good girl moves never saved me

and here I am ...oh how I can't stand love poems and Love songs and Love this and that
chained forever to the mystery of it
maybe when you come and unlock it
then I will know how
then I will know love

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Gideon Foli March 27, 2020 at 5:10 PM Words can never describe how this poem makes me feel, such a feeling I would have love to indite in poetic words than kept. Love is the most important ingredient... Lovely woven my friend. Love and hugs!!!!

Marquis Mc Mills-Cooper April 2, 2016 at 10:39 AM Oh how can you not love love poems...you wrote a nice poem here about love LOL! I liked this poem, especially "i in my many tethered imperfections transcended into a one crowned perfection" This was very well done! MC

Elcana Oteki February 28, 2016 at 8:28 AM such a good piece of emotional expression...keep it up Njeri Njeri Hunjeri March 6, 2016 at 2:03 AM Thank you Elcana. I would love to read your poems. So i will be visiting :-)

Anthony Mark February 22, 2016 at 3:36 AM really beautifully written , ... Njeri Hunjeri March 6, 2016 at 2:00 AM Thank you so much Mark

CayCay Godwin February 21, 2016 at 7:06 PM I just want to cuss, it is so DAMN good - excellent! You say things so well that I want to say poetically, but fail. You nailed this! This was me, how I was, before Tim came into my life. I was in my 50s before I was blessed with the real deal, but blessed I was. If it what you really want, don't ever give up, but don't be consumed by it either. Why am I mothering you, you who write beautifully about inner struggles, desires with a captivating rawness. Love it ... CayCay Njeri Hunjeri February 21, 2016 at 11:04 PM Oh your comment brings me beautiful smiles. I feel good reading it. Thank you for those words, they mean a great deal to me. And yes i don't mind you mothering me :-) thank you so much CayCay