Life Poem by Ejiro Okoro

My Love, it is thou I have loved to love
it is you I have spent my nights and day with
showered you with the sweetest fragrance of oriental sunflower
with unending desire have I sought to please thee
steadfastly laying my every breathe at your alter
like a clown who can't lose his smile.

But thou my love has treated me as one with leprosy
my sheepish smile often met with an icy stare
Like thou my love is a mannequin in a garment shop
My love, though I get only a stony glare
I will love you more and more ‘
cause you my love I was made to love

When my eyes finally close in death
I will go with one thought in mind
I loved the life I had