IN LOVE’S DOOM

When the trees in love sway,

The dogs in love lay,

The horses cheer in a sleigh,

And the chickens with their chicks stray,

You are all that fills me and so I pray

That I’ll meet your stay.

 

When you made me choose between you, the station

The children or the nation

A temporal aberration made me choose a probable citation

One against four, if you count our mansion

I could not give a moving oration

To arrest your thoughts into my ambition

 

Now everything reminds me of you

Even doves here move in two

I shut my eyes to the sky and still see blue

What more can a hungry romantic do?

Even the fireflies like angry soldiers boo

And the swaying leaves promise to sue

 

Now I know not if I have to call God

Or get myself a palm wine of gourd

To get your heart to sign a peace accord

As you name a price that I can afford

Then I’ll make you the Lordina of my Lord

Staying by our love’s gate with a sharp sword

    Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014.