Only Words Can Say Poem by Onalethuso Petruss Ntema

saw you from across the way
and only words can say,
than stare
at you so near,
your eyes, crystal clear
in yours, i ought to stay.

would you stay?
can you really do?
would you marry me?
would you carry me?
questions within me
all gone unknown to be.

i pause
to scout
for a spouse
not in doubt
to the falls
all gone without.

forgive me for looking
at your beauty,
your talk is soothing
like the morning,
i run smoothly
to the calling.

let me say these few lines
to take you many miles,
where only words can stay
when only words can say,
i pause to reckon with the silence,
you walked across my silence.