Love Poem: Keep Me In
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Written by: Tshediso Louw

Keep Me In

Yesterday I Remembered how, I wanted to write you a lover Letter On Bouquet of Roses,But My Fear Keeps Jumping Out Of My Stomach In Search For The Right Words.Like What Are Your Greatest fears?
Mine,To Squash my Throat Trying to Swallow My Pride For You To See My Nakedness. 

I am aware Of Things Like Unspoken Depression That My Mother told Me About like Son Try To Fit In,And My answer Would Be How do I fit In when I'm the missing Space. WELL when I saw your Face That Gap was Filled by your Beautiful smile. 

My Young Boy In Me started Jumping For Joy In The Garden I built For I Have Met Even to Make Me Whole Again. 

Reality Struck Me Heard On My Face Like Earthquake Moving The Grounds,Your Beauty measures 7 on A richter scale,which Man wouldn't Be shaken By That.
So In the Pamper of Night The Rainbow That I picked On My Imagination was made Out Of your Skin Tone And Of course Your Eyes The Best Thing That Replaced Stars. 
So If In You I see A mirror, then Your Soul Knows How To Make A Mosaic of Beauty, So Everytime I say You are Beautiful I mean,
Your Warmth Touches me on the Darkest and coldest Places I Know. 

Oh Darling, For I know This Poem May mean Less to You but More To me,
Even If I can be Blackberries in The Palms Of A cave Man.
As long as You Squeeze me With Your Hugs,
Don't Chew and Spit Me out, 
Eat Me As Sweet And keep my Skin Inside You. 
Even if I want To Crawl out Of Your Heart, Keep me In Like Breath. Heartbeats can Stop in A brink Of shock.
Just Keep Me In.