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Old School Love

My love do you remember when we met?
At the Rubandikarya corner near the gigantic cypress tree,
An old sport known for romance,
Where lovers used to meet evening hours?
And they would do their romantic chanting?
That was the epitome of our dates.

My Love do you remember the letters we used to send each other?
The letters we could scribble on dirty papers,
Because our parents complained of how books were expensive,
Though the spellings used to confuse our thoughts,
But our hearts would understand the lines and smile,
Then the funny images of us we would draw at the end of the letter,
Though they looked funny but symbolized our true love.

My Love do you remember the crazy games we used to play?
Hide and seek, kalongolongo, baba na mama etc.
They made us look stronger in our love than today,
They made us smile even when tears were forcing their way into our love,
They made us see love not as the world sees it today,
They made us be called love drunkards.

My Love, that love, where has it gone?
That love that every one used to gossip about,
That love that made us be called idiots,
That love that made us nicknamed Romeo and Juliet,
That love that wiped off our tears when pain sprouted,
That love that made even dogs be jealous of us,
It’s that love that I need.

My Love I need the love we had before evolution,
The love that always overlooked the boundaries,
The love that never hid behind shame of nature,
Love that never used to shout in public,
But would whisper into our ears soft music,
That glued our hearts together.

That love that carried us within the harsh whispers of the wind,
Moved us through the claws of the storm,
Shielded us from the terror of darkness,
Sheltered us from the tears of the sky,
Gave us a shade when the sun scorched,
That love my Love, is all I need.

My Love, that love they call old school love,
Is the love that will prosper us,
It’s the love that will crown us amongst mighty Kings,
It’s the Love that will raise us above the turmoil of the world,
Pass us through the devils traps,
And set us on our predestined throne of Eternal Joy.

Old School Love!

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Its About Us

Many sayings have been told about love,
Many romance books written,
Plenty of love novels published,
Organizations of love established…

And counselors and authors…
And theories and hypotheses…

But do they know love?
Do they feel our hearts when they are crumbled?
Do they see the beauty and ugliness inside our souls?
Do they really know when the heart is rebuilding from its past?
None sees,
None knows.

My Love,
My Love,
Love is not about they,
Love is not about them,
Love is about us.

My Love.

Love is not about beauty,
Love is not about physic,
Love is not about fashion,
But love is about our hearts encrypted in the other however ugly we are,
Love is about  us.

My Love.

Love is not about money,
Love is not about wealth,
Love is not about luxury,
But love is about our souls mixed together as one even when nothing is there to fill us,
Love is about us.

My Love.

Love is not about seasons,
Love is not about how many days,
Love is not about how many years,
But love is about how much time can we endure us,
Love is about us.

My Love.

Love is not about the past,
Love is not about experience,
Love is not about the sins of our past,
But love is about how can we live in the present far from the past,
Without it hurting our future,
Love is about us.

My Love.

Love is kind,
Love suffereth long,
Love does not behave itself unseemly,
Love is not puffed up,
Love thinketh not evil,
Love seeketh not itself,
Love,
Love.

My Love,
Your Love,
Us.

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Voices

Do you hear those faint voices?
Coming from beneath the earth,
Begging for a resurrection,
They are voices of assassinated warriors,
That fought for our freedom.

Do you hear those voices?
In the outskirts of the town?
They are voices of peasant farmers,
Protesting over lack of payment,
The big cats mauled their produce.

Do you hear those voices?
Coming from those thatched houses?
They are voices of a girl child,
Struggling to be set free,
Their fathers forcefully molest them sexually.

Do you hear those voices?
Coming within the streets?
They are voices of poor hawkers,
Trying to seek their rights,
The elephants keep haunting their green pockets.

Do you hear those voices?
So faint and vanishing,
They are widows crying,
Crying to get justice,
They forgot justice is nowadays paid for.

Do you hear those voices?
Voices in our dark villages,
They are unheard voices of uncared orphans,
They need education, food, shelter…
They are slaves of our century.

Do you hear those voices?
Voices of a given up soul,
They are voices of jobless youths,
Thrown out by tribalism and nepotism,
The hyenas will never give them a bone to chew.

Voices are everywhere,
Some are stealth,
Some are faint,

But does anyone hear?
We are all deaf and dumb,
We have let our nation to bleed,
And the sores are enlarging and incurable.

And the voices keep on…
And our deafness looms…

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Just a Belief

Oh! Why didn’t I know earlier?
That I was being trodden into pain,
The pain that could leave my heart in unamendable pieces,
Pieces that are so difficult to forget the past,
The past that is now the painful present.

I believed and I believed and I believed,
Until my heart was in obsession of belief,
I believed and let my thoughts follow,
Follow as I digested each word that came from your mouth,
Whispering into my ears how ‘truly’ you loved me.

I believed when you shouted the word ‘affection,’
Into my ears, that were always there to listen to your lovely voice,
I believed when you whispered into my ears, “I love you,”
Yes I believed those words which made me crazy,
And slave to your false love.

I believed you when you promised to be with me “forever,”
I believed you the way Adam believed Eve,
And blindly he became, only to be driven out of Eden,
Because of the taste of the forbidden fruit,
I believed you too, and now I am out of that “paradise”

I believed you with all my soul,
Devoted myself to you as a slavery who seeks freedom from his master,
Only to be betrayed by the wrong perceptions of his master,
I believed you as a sinner, who partakes Holy Sacrament for redemption,
Only to find himself still entangled by the pains of his unforgiven sins.

I believed you with the whole of myself,
I believed you when you kissed me with your soft sweet lips,
Not knowing that it was Judas kiss that betrayed the Son of Man,
And that kiss also subjected me to unending pain,
That kiss… I wish I couldn’t feel your lips,

Yes, I believed you…
Followed you like a lost sheep that needed guidance and acceptance,
Decided to follow your path, because I saw love in you,
Love that blinded my heart,
And let me head to a destination of sorrow and long suffering.

I believed you my Love,
Nights never passed without a dream of your love evolving in my mind,
A day never passed without an image of your perfection streaming in my thoughts,
Every minute I loved you, cherished you, adored you,
But you have betrayed all my beliefs…
Left me to nurse the wounds of my dumb beliefs.

If only I would have known,
Known that my beliefs were bloody lies,
Lies that encrypted my heart to your slavery,
Slavery of “discipleship” in the name of love,
Love that only was infatuation,
I wouldn’t have said “YES.”

Just a belief?
I wish…

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My Virtual Woman

Oh my love,
How sweet is your name,
When I pronounce it in my mouth,
How lovely is your smile,
When it reflects in my eyes,
How strengthening is your touch,
When slowly your hands caress my skin.

Do you really know?
That your chuckle refreshes my heart,
Do you really know?
That your melody,
Makes my heart to skip a bit,
Do you really know,
How your presence in my heart?
Takes me away from myself.

Oh my Love,
I know you will never know,
For your hands have never touched me,
Though they caress me in the dreams,
Leaving me wanting more and more,
But when I wake up,
You are nowhere near me.

Oh my love,
I know you cannot feel,
When my heart skips at your presence,
For your hands are too far from my heart,
I only feel them in the drama,
When am dead asleep.

Oh my love,
I know you cannot understand,
When I am out of myself at thy presence,
For your eyes are too far from my dreams
And your heart is hidden within your soul,
That you cannot navigate through my body,
When am dreaming.

Oh my Love,
I know we have never met,
But I always meet you in my dreams,
I always feel your tender touch when am asleep ,
I listen to your lovely melodies throughout the night,
Your smiles brightens and enlivens my sleep,
I wish you could feel them too in your dreams.

Oh my Love,
How I pray like a desperate caravan,
Who wishes to see an oasis in Sahara desert,
That soon I will meet you,
Though I can’t tell of your direction,
Neither know of your location,
From where your lovely figure will sprout.

Oh my love,
How I long to meet you,
Like lilies waiting for sunshine,
To touch you,
And taste your soft lips that I only feel in the dreams,
Before the sun sets,
To usher me into a dark lonely smokefall.

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Its Not My Fault

Yah! You have said,
Its madness,
That has taken over me,
And I am controlled,
By evil spirits,
When I say I love you.

It’s not my fault,
To fall for you,
To like you,
To desire you,
To need you,
But it’s my love for you.

It’s not my fault,
To spend sleepless nights,
Thinking about you,
Dreaming about you,
But it’s my love for you,
Love that you fail to see.

You say,
I am not,
Your anointed,
Your appointed,
Your chosen,
But I love you,
And it’s not my fault.

It’s not my fault,
To kneel before you,
And beg like a starving child,
To cry every day,
In your presence,
But it’s because of the love,
The love I have harbored for you. 

If only you would open your heart,
And see the passion,
The affection,
I have for you,
And the oceans of my love,
My love for you,
You will know,
It’s not my fault.

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I Want To Fall In Love With You

Every day I have lied in my palms,
Coiling myself in a numerical four,
Singing tunes and love psalms,
As if am already in heavenly realms,
Waiting to be filled with your love from above.

The beautiful clouds moves across the carpeted sky,
The winds blow leaving whispers of your love in my ears,
The birds sing sonnets and my heart plays to their lovely melodies,
As I wait patiently to see your lovely image sprout,
Sprouting with a ring for my finger.

I want to fall in love with you,
While the stars are still shining and the moon smiling,
While the whispers of the night are still lying dead,
And the cold breezes of the night have not fallen,
I want to fall in love with you, before the terror of the night revives.

I want to fall in love with you,
While the dawn still holds the victory for our love,
While the roses are still blossoming and sending out fragrant scent,
Before the sun bleaches our beautiful us,
I want to fall in love with you, before the earth loses its aroma.

I want to fall in love with you,
While our dreams and visions still hold the truth,
While our hearts are purified by glorious love from above,
While hate has not yet encrypted our hearts,
I want to fall in love with you, before our love is dilute.

I want to fall in love with you,
Hide you in deepest chambers of my heart,
Shower you with the true showers of real love,
Carry you within the secret corners of deep love,
And fill every empty hole in you with passion.

I want to fall in love with you,
Will you allow me to?
Before my heart melts away in vanity?

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Stuck On You

Maybe am just being mad,
Coz nothing makes sense,
Without your presence,
Though we’ve never had a chat.

Since the day I saw you,
My dreams have changed,
Nothing comes in my visions,
Without your gorgeous curved images.

A day never ends,
Without my heart making a new song,
With lyrics full of your beauty,
Stilled in my mind.

My ways are no more astray,
As always am on your way,
Though sometimes I delay,
At the glance of your glowing smiles.

You pretty designed beauty,
Has taken away my mind,
I can’t comprehend of another,
Coz already tightly I’m engulfed in you.

I find much pleasure,
Than my kept golden treasure,
Before your well designed architecture,
That has always captivated my soul.

It’s not an exaggeration to say this,
But your saccharine nature,
Has made me more mature,
As you are already my inspiration.

I seek nothing else from you
But to share to us an affection,
That is always glowing in my heart,
Coz already am stuck on you.

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Oh Love

When love finds a man,
She makes him a child,
A slave,
A servant,
Strikes his manhood to childhood,
He becomes a child to obey.

Oh love
Oh love

When love steals a man’s heart,
He becomes a follower,
He forgets his strength,
He gives up his power,
He becomes the ruled.

Oh love 
Oh love

When love courts a man,
He splashes his secretes,
Breaks himself loose,
Just like Samson,
He forgets his own beliefs.

Oh love
Oh love

When love embeds into a man’s heart,
He gives up everything to defend his woman,
Though he may be weak, he will fight,
Though he is poor, he will provide for his woman,
He becomes a king, even when he is inferior.

Oh love
Oh love

Love you are so sweet,
Wonderful,
Marvelous,
You let a man’s heart dwell in eternal peace,
You make him to walk in the world of roses and bliss,
You make him strong; even when he is the celebrity of weakness,
You make him rich, though he is a peasant.

Oh love
Oh love

How I desire to embrace you forever,
To rest in your bosom ever,
To tread within your peaceful heart always,
To make you my all in all.

Oh love
Oh love

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Those Days

You remember the day our hearts met?
When each had already been dusted?
You remember when our lips touched for the first?
After a long period of starvation?
You remember when I tasted your tongue?
And it tasted so sweet that I wanted to swallow it?
You remember when you swallowed my saliva?
And requested for a full cup of it?

I still remember those funny days,
When we could jump and run round around like kids,
When we could laugh at the top of our voices,
When we could play hide and seek,
When people saw us, they thought we were mad,
Some even condemned us of our childish acts,
But we ignored them and acted blindly.

I still remember those cool days,
When I could hold you up and kiss you,
When I could hide your hand in my armpit,
When I could wake up and brush your teeth,
When I could swallow your sweet saliva for breakfast,
And feel myself to satisfaction with your bright smile.

I still remember those sad days too,
When everyone had turned away from you,
When no one wanted to be close to you, with the fear of infection,
When everyone would look at you and spit,
I stood by you, gave you comfort,
I carried you in the blossom of my heart,
And vowed to die with you if it was to be.

I still remember those sad days,
When my Mama and Papa turned against us,
They condemned me for choosing you,
They sent us away from home-our beloved home,
They made us look like aliens,
We looked like beggars and people mocked us,
But I remained by your side,
Vowed to die if you were to die.

Those days both sad and good,
They are now gone, gone forever,
They are gone with their brightness,
They are gone like dry winds,
They are far away like the sky.

Since you left my love, those days are no more,
The funny moment we used to have,
The jokes we used to make,
They are all gone,
I only feel the sad whispers of the wind,
They keep echoing in my ears,
Those whispers hurt me much more than those sad days my Love.

Do you remember when I would you call you Mama?
Then you would chuckle and slap me on my left cheek,
But I would give you a lollipop,
Because your slap gave me a joyful sensation,
It made me love you more and more,
I miss those slaps my love,
I am only nowadays slapped by swaying trees