ANTHOLOGY OF ROMANTICISM BY MUTWIRI(KENYA)

I found her words

to be unexpected,

we were friends,

after all but then...

She said 

I love you 

and the colours of my world 

changed along 

with those dreams I called

Tomorrow.

2

Poems make things 

more real for me.

Finding hope in loss,

creating beauty 

painted in words 

or seeing the pain.

Dark gods of need,

prowling, preying 

I'm God's child with a

blackened, frightened eyes,

but I feel love, I do

and it scares me 

that I can see 

so little sometimes.

3

He never found it easy,

searching for the silver lining,

not after the tears 

of his yesterdays,

but he still believed 

it was out there,

somewhere...

Only because 

he met you 

4.

I am lost 

in the sea of her 

essence drowning,

as wave after wave 

of her passion 

washes over me,

and for a moment.

I welcome dying,

knowing, 

I'll live again 

once I am consumed.

5

Her hands 

Cup my face 

Holding it 

Just still enough 

That I become 

Nothing more 

Than a frozen 

Mannequin

Waiting for her 

Kiss of life 

Before I dare stir

6

Dance of sinners,

crimes of passion 

committed after dark.

Two or more,

tangled in throes 

of skin on skin.

No thoughts 

of consequences,

only feelings 

of ecstacy's debauchery.

7

He had a penchant 

for running his fingers 

through her hair,

as if it were 

stroking.

The very edges 

of her soul,

that part of her 

that sets fire

to his spirit 

andd offers the lesson 

of desire 

to his soul.

8

I would make a wish,

that every coming morning

I would find her again 

but whenever the sun goes down

without the promise of her...

I would be left with her echo 

Singing to an empty heart.

MUTWIRI NJUE.

(KENYA.)