What Attracted Me to You
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He has just relocated
To the area, not
Known to many people,
Except few adults in the area
Youths were wondering which
Kind of person is
This, that does his
Things alone hardly mingling
With people in the
Area, especially the youths
He doesn’t look like
Adult thus should join them, they opined
Though some adults consider
Him to be one
Of them, when they
Were told his age
He’s even older than
Some of those who
Have classified themselves
Among the adults in the area
Some find it hard
To believe that he
Could have clocked that
Age, for he doesn’t look it
He looked half his
Age to people. What
Could be the secret
Behind this, Youths asked themselves
No one among them
Want to move close
To him they are
Afraid of him.
But he was as
Gentle as a dove,
As eagle careth for
Its children so careth he for its own
Very patient like
Ass and reliable like
A tree in the wilderness
That someone rests on
These attributes and more
Many do not know
And they say introverts
And people who hardly talk
Are the most dangerous people
To be associated with
In the world. This
Push many off him
He was undeterred by
That as he keeps
Maintaining himself keeping the
Low key estate known for
I was one of those
Looking at you from
Afar then one night
I dreamt a dream
This she told him
After they had become
Acquaintance with each
Other deeply subsumed in love
As she continued with
Her narration. In my dream
I found you in great
Splendor you were in white apparel
With all gold crown
Placed on thine head
You were controlling people
And things hearken unto thee
Light surround all about
You reveal your stature and
Mien like one of
The angels in the heavenlies
Thou spotted me in
The dream and bided
Me to draw close to thee
As I moved closer
You embraced me and
Your hands all around
Me was soothing I
Felt comfort and warmth
Then I left the
Terrestrial world to physical
It pained me that
The dream was soon truncated
Lay I back on
The mat for I
Desire to go back
Into the unknown land
I wanted to dream the
Dream again for as
The writer says, the dream
Sweetens me. Alas! It wasn’t continued
Maybe later, but it
Never occur again. Then
Reasoned I within me
What to do about it
This kind of dream
Is not ordinary, it
Transcends physical. It suggests
To me that you are special
You have something hidden
That is suigeneris that
I would not be
Able to tap into when far from thee
Distancing myself from thee
Would deprive me the
Knowledge of those things
I should get from thee
As the writer says
Draw closer to me
And I will move closer
Unto thee, so I viewed
But you were and
Are very reserved, how
Do I break this
Boundary I asked myself
Then it crossed my
Mind to approach thine
Territory as one of
Thine students then came I as one
You warmly welcomed and
Embraced me like it
Was in the dream and thine words comforteth me
I was elated receiving
This warm comfort from
Thee as I started
To follow thee “innerly”
This was when I discovered
I had missed for not
Associating with thee sooner
Than then, but it’s better
The lost grounds I
Was able to recover
And me lose not
Totally unlike some people
One day, adrenaline in
Me surged up and
Another feeling overwhelmed me
Which was caused by increase oxytocin
The love hormones continue
To increase in my system
And I started seeing
Myself in thine arms
But it seems as
If thee never noticed this
For thou art been
Subsumed by thine undertakings
I kept the hope
Alive day dreaming of
When I would be
Yours until death part us
Almost lost hope is
Me this fantasizing imagination
And I would have
Bell the cart
But for cultural limitations
I put myself under
Restraints lest I be
Negatively viewed by thee
It then happened in
A day that continues
To ring bell in
My memory when thou speakest to me
For thee have not
Spoken to me in
That light before; thou
Spoke to me affectionately
Your word passed through
Sinews and marrows piercing
Into the deepest of
My beings settling there
The feeling is indescribable
The expression uncontrollable the
Emotion overwhelming because I
Was full of the joys like the springs
Now I know that
Me shall be in
Thine arms forever as
Thou be sunshine that warms me
Though giving light to
Everyone but they won’t
Be warmed like I
Do under thine radiation.
He was looking at
Her, listening to her
Intriguing story as they
Entered the new car he bought
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