How Long Will I Love You? Poem by Kwenadi Gaaje

It took me days to love you
Years to see through you
Few nights to see to it that I give all that you demand from me
Weeks just to give in
To forget that my joy comes first.

I put you first
I respected you
I valued and our love
Protected the heart I thought you gave to me
But how long will I give my heart to you?

You were my first priority.
My first and last hope of maturity
I prided by you
Hoped for our future
Prayed for our tomorrow to be brighter
But love!
How long will I love you?

How long shall I give my heart to you?
As long as you claim to love me?
As long ad I'm told not to let go?
How long will it take for me to realise that you are no good in me?

baby!
You seem to be blinded by my patience
By the woman you see...
Always standing in front of you
Begging, crying and hoping you'd halt mocking me
Yet! Never go off your side..

But how long will I enslave myself mercilessly for you to love me?
For how long will I love you?
Till the moon brings light in your heart?
Or long if I can love?

How lon will it take me to see beyond these love?
How long will I stand to wish for these untouchable fantasy?
When it's s sad to look close to the lovey lovey fatal...

How sad can it be to accept that it wasn't for long?
How hard can it befor a heart to accept that things weren't meant to last?
How hard?
And how long?
How long?