Love Poem: Dear Virgo
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Written by: Kenneth Kolowa

Dear Virgo

A thought about losing you is much crueler 
Than never having had you  
But is it better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all?
I have lost the battle between my mind and my heart
The battle of responding to question-whys
Though my mind sighs 
My heart still tries 
We started with a simple hello 
And ended up with a complicated hell no! 
Like, when it’s real, should one walk away?
Like, love that we cannot have, is that the strongest?
Last the longest or hurt the deepest?

The one that I don’t fall asleep to extremes, 
Because reality is better than my dreams?
Thorny feelings and frightening screams, 
In my life, now here’s the real Ghost that seems?
Yesterday we were on the same page with ease, 
Today you are the chalk and I am the cheese?

How do I explain how I miss you in length?
Your charming smile that always thaws my depth
By flashing your teeth 
I always see happiness laying underneath 
Your character that imprisonments my heart 
Made me forgot I had other worlds
And with very little words
You always turned a small cell into my whole universe 
Though these words might seem like another line of verse
Trust me a lot more are stuck in my throat, and that’s worse
I treasure what we had if we had, what we have if we have 
With every pace of it, wave of it, sound of it, crave of it
And promise to love you forever for the sake of it
For whether beauty or wealth, better or worse
Or these all, or all, or more
Perhaps what was between our two lips a while ago 
Wasn’t destined to reach us in the long go 
But perhaps also what’s underneath two mountains
Could be destiny that is trying to reach us 
I trust my ego 
Dear beautiful Virgo