Don't Chase Love With A Bell Around Your Neck Poem by Sarah Mkhonza

Don't chase love with a bell
Around your neck on Valentines
Day, for love is already enveloping you,
Waiting to see if you see it is all yours.

Love hunts you, haunts you and tags
You for it sits in the car called you and winks
At the passerby you are hoping you will hail
And stop from looking out and not in.

For every look you cast asks if you see
The love it goes out with, and comes back
With. It hears the bell you wear around your
Neck as it rings for love knows the tune of all
The rings, just like love knows the tunes of
The songs you love and love is ready to throw
the bouquet when you are ready to catch it.
It is always coming your way

Love is not for lovers, but for dreamers
For lovers are already doing the ins and outs
Of it and the dreamers are still out there
Chasing the wind. When the morning comes
They are sick with the hang over of wishing
They had been loving and not doing what
We call chasing love with a bell around one's neck.