Love Poem: To Love
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Written by: Brian Mwangi

To Love

I was used to chasing the sun
Gone with each new turn
Like the wind wild and free
Living untamed I was the sea
The world at my feet not a single care
In a world full of worries, I was rare
The emptiness inside a mere blight
For I had no equal I was like light
Gone faster than a whisper
Now you got me in a twister
I’d rather be bound to you
Than gone with sunrise like dew.

Life is like a hurricane, fed on joy
Without it we wither and grow coy
Consumed from within yet strong without
Love is like a temporary madness
It erupts like an earthquake
When it does, you have to make a decision
To decide if your roots are so entwined
That you can’t live apart.
Or like a rose in winter
Fade away and wither, leaving questions
Memories and possibilities
And nothingness, emptiness.