To Love Someone Poem by Deluke Muwanigwa

To Love Someone

To love someone is the first right of passage
from a place of sadness to a place of madness

A place of hurt without hatred
A place of sacrifice for nothing
because the sacrifice is really in the mind

Thank God love is a figment of the mind
whether happening under a figtree or on your way to Plumtree
If it happened as part of the origin of life

the strife in the world
in the state
in the province
in the home in every home
and especially in the womb

would be like a nuclear explosion in the nucleus of the cell
where life begins
and i would never love someone
as it would be too dangerous

too dire to sire someone who would light a fire in the entire firmament because i tried to love someone

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