The Night Beauty Passed Me Bye Poem by Folayemi Akande

It was on a bright summer day

I's sp'rited in dashing gay blade

Noon had died into nightly sway

When this lass in the dark did wade.

She's a lovely bird by whose touch

I respired in a copious blush.

Her cheek were plume as bloom of youth

She had it all; rare beauty sooth.

Oh, it was a passing beauty

Indeed she was such a rare bird

Plush in appearance and witty

Caged by fear I couldn't be heard

She seems to me eve' wild and bold

Like tales of deities left untold

Her cat-eye drove me to cyn'sure

She's lithe, dulcet and demure.

Blesséd be the light that cast her form

She's a vast ep'phany of life

She's as comely as cherry-rum

Love can tell she will be my wife.

The sun is stuck in her dark eye'

I cannot describe but will try.

Moon sits at the door of her lip

Awaiting her starry face to sleep.

I brooded dare amidst my thought

Thinking how honeys drive bees nut.

She's like a flowe' that's heavenly aired

On barren mountains, growing like thread.

Her breath travels far as the tide

Transforming poor earth in its glide,

Casting her love spell all over

Oh, love is in the eye of her lover.

My love is loved by plants in dales

My love's despised by her counterfeit

My love's heart enchants like the gales

Such honour did her peers forfeit.

The day my heart rose from slumber

Was the Night Beauty Passed Me Bye.