Like A Healing Poem by John Onyeme

I don't know what this is, my friend
Neither do I wish that it comes to end
So cool and sweet like ice is this feeling
So gradual and fervent just like a healing
There's nothing like it I've felt before
Neither is there a thing much better to adore
Oh, my friend, it is your bright, bright eyes
Within which are treasures I can't ever price
It is your charm, your gentry and innocence
That remain in me an incandescence
It is more so, your gait, oh, the way you walk
And then the ensorcelling way you talk
You're so much an engrossment
That I can't for a second prevent.


I want to have you and very well you alone
I want to feel you more than the bod of my own
I want every single thing that concerns you
Even if it means they are trouble to pass through
I want your face to be the source of my courage
And your touch the extinguisher of my rage
I want to like you than a birds likes to fly
And continue to hug you till the very day I die
I want you to hold my hands, lean on me and say
That you'll be my friend each and every passing day
I want to talk to you in my good or in my bad times
And that each one of your words and mine are rhymes
I want us to always be together like a pair of shoes
And to always have no other than ourselves to choose
I want us to always look into our eyes and confess
That we love each other, whether in neatness or in mess
I want us to always laugh and smile and play about
And never to see our company as such a drought
I want you to forever be a part of me as I a part you
That the love we've come to share forever remains true.
I want to love but only you to love and love again
Whether it is my my loss to do so or my gain