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Patrick Onyema
Student spokenwords artist and graphic designer @ University of Abuja
Student spokenwords artist and graphic designer @ University of Abuja
MY HEART'S BELOVED
<p><br/></p><p>I USED TO BE SCARED OF LOVE</p><p>AND I STILL AM</p><p>HEARD STORIES OF HOW CRUEL LOVE IS</p><p>OF JOW LOVE HURT ALOT OF PEOPLE</p><p>HOW UNPREDICTABLE LOVE IS </p><p>and i always heard stories about love at first sight</p><p>FALLING IN LOVE</p><p>It never happened for me</p><p>Till you came by </p><p>I can't wrap my fingers around It</p><p>Something about your eyes dazling and pretty I get lost in it</p><p>Something about your smile that reflects on my face like mirror</p><p>Something about your laughter and voice being more soothing than music would be</p><p>Something about your embrace bringing me to calm admist my confusion and chaos</p><p>Something about your presence and being with </p><p></p><p>you that brings me at peace </p><p>Something about not being able to forget how you look or forget about you </p><p>And then came the pain of possession</p><p>Yes feeling like you belong to me alone</p><p>Feeling hurt by just the thought of someone else embracing you or getting your attention the same way I do </p><p>So maybe I could be different</p><p>With words</p><p>With actions</p><p>With love</p><p>With YOU </p><p>While they say you're the most "beautiful one I've seen" </p><p>I'd say "YOUR BEAUTY SHOULD BE A</p><p>RELIGION AND YOU THE GODDESS THE WORLD HAS TO WORSHIP AND ADORE WHILE I REMAIN THE ONLY ONE WORTHY OF YOU </p><p></p><p>Where they say "I'd always chose you"</p><p>I'd say "There wouldn't ever be anyone worthy enough to be an option next to you, or rather you can never be an option I have to chose amongst others" </p><p>Your mother might have given you the world but she gave me MY WORLD </p><p>If loving you was torture then I'd be bleeding and in pains so much that the devil would cry </p><p>If loving you was fire then I'd be engulfed in the flames of my love for you burnt down to ashes </p><p>And if loving you was hell then surely I'd be the devil himself </p><p>Because when it comes to loving you I would give my last breath for you 🌹🌹 </p><p><a class="tc-blue" href="https://twocents.space/insights/tag/outspoken">#outspoken</a> </p>
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