Hearts On Altar Poem by Chukwuebuka Adebayo

HEARTS ON ALTAR

(On Joy's Wedding)
May 22,2021


Bring your burning spark, (i)
And i'll open the core of my coal;
I'm your dear friend to lean on---
Let flickering tongue of love shineforth
Before this altar, where is sister joy?
Do you like Brother Bankole in his suit?


He's got a secret you won't believe (ii)
He's coming to water a flower in your house;
And will dwell there and live there forever
You just won it----You are the lucky one;
But I still don't know how nor even why---
Why a man when happy will cry his happiness?


Why a lady worship a man in good hands? (iii)
Or when you don't have even much---
But you are always ready to give?
Or have enough and need one to take?
Seems that's the perfection lovers seeks;
To be simple and live as close to the earth.


For a simple love's the true love (iv)
Just like as those two old birds;
Sitting in the coldest tranquility of a tree;
Those kids cooking mess in the garden;
Happy as wind and its breeze in your hairs,
Free as them dancing up and down the sea.


Come those who are willing, (v)
As we set down these hearts----
Down upon this altar of love;
And pray it glow as they grow,
Strong as stones in the wall,
Hold as hand of sand to a rose.


Go walk up holding hand in streets (vi)
Everything will turn good in that way;
Stroll round when the last rain is gone
To feel the deepest warmth of Ondo's sun;
Calling names, anywhere, to give a big hug and a kiss.
For that's how sweet memories are made.