Love Poem: Who Am I Without You?
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Written by: Ifedayo Oshin

Who Am I Without You?

Who is a king
without a crown?

Or a great music performer
without a listening audience

A cocktail party 
without cheerful guests?

What is beauty
without a beholder?

A work of art
without  an admirer?

What is wealth
without none to share?

A joke , a story
without no one to hear and laugh?

And what is  life 
without no one to live with?

Who am I
without you?

My eyes without your sight
My mouth without your ears?
My heart,

without your fond memories and living thoughts

My existence
without your presence and absence

Who am i  without you?
For I am, because you  are.


(This poem expresses the oneness and interrelatedness of the human race; in 
Swahili: Ubuntu, It  is Ujamaa)