As Beautiful As That Night Poem by Benjuzzy Okpuzor

That night, under the
Fig tree, when your
Eyes'like those of
Doves'beams'and blinks

At me, as beautiful as
That night, when I laid
In your lain' waiting
Like a city' under a

Siege to sail with you,
This we did' but the
Little we could do'for
You were taken'yet even

As Many as the sea can
Quench the fire'but not
My desire for you, I
Walk from dusk'till dawn

Drawn by your blazing
Beauty to behold, this I
Held in my heart, that
Night the cawing gulls

Caws but we felt no fear,
For the skies bless, and
Bliss our being, now I
Find you no more as what

Was there may never be
There again, but have
Stayed, and strayed of
The lain.