Being Two As One Poem by Goodness Tchibueze

Being Two As One
With our diferences won;
Let us be in the fortress of our arms,
Under the shadow of love's charms,
And remain inseparable as land from the earth.
Let us pass a love-led life and breath:
Life without love is labourious and lost;
Only hearts void of meekness can boast,
And wine-blurred eyes claim they see
Things rolling in the wheels of the sea.
For emptiness gives forth the loudest din -
And hallucinatory sights many glasses of gin.
But we are not like them, we are a pair
Temperate as Morning's soothing air,
Whose exploits halt the feet of time
And make the world's bell chime.
We are a pair of scissors joined by love
That though we may part 'neath and above,
We must draw back to become whole.
Let us cut our foes from crown to sole
Who swear, with devices of jealousy,
To dismember us.Let us hide leniency
In so doing; we should be keen.
For they are rough, tough and mean.
I am naught and exist not without you;
United we are one, divided we are two.
Are we not the breath and heartbeat of time?
Let us determine which ways our adversaries to birdlime,
Though it takes us one thousand decades to devise,
Or many decades more to quell the uprise,
Which may rear up as a surge of wrath,
By the strength of an aged truth.
Being two as one, let me unto you be
A beast, you can tame and bridle me;
And from wherever i lie, i would still
My ears to hear your whistle or shrill,
And would gallop to wherever you are.
The demise of beauty leaves a scar,
But your beauty shall never decay
Nor shall your smiles the sun slay,
Hence you will have your youthfulness, even in oldness;
And your beauty shall never wear from illness.
Though Age imposes on us nostalgic cries,
You will forever be immortal in my eyes.
Let us be in the fortress of our arms,
Under the shadow of love's charms
If we are to survive these dispensations
Of fiery heads driven by gory intentions,
Or else we should unsheathe our blade,
Or execute them on the gallows they have made.