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
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