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  That we love each other, very much

  But we have to be apart

  Our hearts to know other love:

  Let’s just kiss,

  And say goodbye

  For the sake of the love we once had!

  Roses are Red

  Maxine was a friend in deed

  My best friend,

  When frail a shoulder to lean on,

  A hand she lend in times of need;

  And when all hope’s gone she’s near

  No matter how far she was.

  When it came the time to face the storm,

  She’s right by my side,

  She’s the one I relied on

  When my love

  Was a blown out candle

  And my life seemed too hot to handle;

  Maxine kept up safe and warm.

  I cast all my fears on her

  Yet she never heard me cry

  Or saw me try,

  Never saw the tear drops;

  Till a new day came,

  Bright as the sun

  And I learnt how to survive.

  She spoke to me in language so plain

  “I love you,”

  Gave me a rose of love;

  Modestly calmed my ire wit’ life

  Watchful, faithful;

  Violet so blue

   Promised she’ll always be true

   Roses are red—she’s a rose.

  Love Given up

  Past to me was that fateful day

  When I watched her walk away,

  And I could do nothing to make her stay;

  Not that I did not do my best, or pray

  To make her come back to my love nest

  And when it’s in vain, I had to rest.

  Still forlorn, not accepting the reality

  I continued to send her flowers

  Meaningful from the deep of my heart,

  Yet she could do nothing but have me hurt

  Throwing all what I gave her back at me;

  She made it clear

  She didn’t want to see, or meet, me

  And when it’s in vain, I had to rest

  Gave up on love.

  Making Love Tonight

  Foreplay, the starter

  for the dinner party

  Doors sealed shut,

  all lights doused

  you and me one,

  Body and soul laced

  Making love tonight.

  When the night creeps,

  and light chased away

  When darkness rules,

  and for me you grope;

  the stars above,

  Twinkling just for us

  we’ll make love tonight.

  You’ll laugh out loud,

  Scream my name aloud

  All your self-will and restraint weak,

  Passion aflame,

  Sweat dampening

  Body and soul laced

  The nun you are turned tart

  This sin clear to see,

  Making love tonight.

  Come on, babe,

  Tear your clothes off

  Go wild tonight,

  Oral sex ain’t sex

  Do all what you’ve ever fantasized—

  Lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

  You and I are one,

  Together is our destiny

  Welcome to real life

  Get rid of those convent robes, get wild

  ‘Morrow you shall be virgin, believe me.

  Oh, babe, don’t be shy,

  Yearn to fly

  I know this is foreign to you,

  Fear not

  Let’s intertwine, forget you’re nun

  Get oral as one,

  Buggery ain’t sex

  ‘Morrow you shall be virgin,

  That I promise

  Let’s make love tonight.

  Destiny’s Girl

  I was just having a walk when I met you

  I was looking for nobody

  When you looked my way,

  That killer smile---

  Had but to smile back;

  Give me a minute and listen to me

  I was not smiling at you

  You got me wrong.

  I like the way you talk you’re strong

  Lemme listen to your corny playa lines;

  You don’t sound like you’d break my heart

  Finding you isn’t a coincidence,

  This is destiny bringing us together.

  Oh give me a break you’re so fast

  It was accidental today we met,

  Stop blocking my way and let me pass

  If I found me with you I’d go crazy.

  Before I go further tell me your name

  I like you, and you like me,

  Babe, don’t be so mean

  I want to walk with your if you don’t mind

  Get to know you better, this is destiny.

  I’m surprised you’re so hopeful

  Take a NO for once and just leave

  for if I found me with you

  I’d go crazy.

  Babe you’re so full of attitude but it’s alright

  It’s a matter of time you be my shadow

  If I was your love,

  I’d love you like crazy

  Please say you love me,

  Either way this is love.

  If I was your love,

  I’d love you all the time

  Can I be your love,

  If you promise you’d be mine?

  Either way it won’t work,

  If you promised you’d be mine;

  Take a NO for once, and

  Just leave me alone.

  Kiss Mommy Goodbye

  Babe you raise me so high

  But you can’t help being so shy,

  Sometimes I wonder why.

  I wanna make you my wife

  Together start a new life,

  but you can’t kiss mommy goodbye.

  When I wanna take you out

  I see no way out,

  you can’t kiss mommy goodbye.

  Sometimes I hurt

  Sometimes I hate,

  Wonder whether I’m late.

  Sometimes you run

  sometimes you hide

  Seem scared of me.

  What I want is to be with you

  Stop being so shy

  Kiss mommy goodbye,

  Come, I love you.

  Eternal Love

  Love of quiet dignity and grace

  Queen of my heart, your palace

  I love you, forever shall

  give you everything, never stall.

  I shall love you till clay becomes gold

  Love you till stars grow old

  Love you till hell grows ice-cold.

  I shall wait for you till lonely becomes fun

  Give you all till I have none

  Walk with you till the moon becomes the sun.

  I shall love you till ocean becomes desert

  Sit and dine with you till dessert

  Follow you everywhere and home desert.

  I shall love you till inanimate is animate

  Now you doubt destiny isn’t fate

  Come to me, it’s getting late.

  Come chase this loneliness away

  Give me your hand, let me lead the way

  through the darkness to the break of the day

  I shall be by your side till we’re all clay;

  This love in my heart’s engraved

  shall never be graved

  Death of body defeated, whence soul’s saved.

  Cry

  Ire rose like tide

  When sweet a woman like you

  I saw him hit

  and saw you cry.

  I pitied you

  for the mistake you made,

  Felt so hurt

  the moment I saw you cry.

  I fell for you
madly

  the moment I saw you cry.

  I am the man

  who’d never make you cry

  I hate to see you cry.

  Since the moment I saw you cry

  I’ve wanted to tell you this,

  what you’ve wanted to hear;

  “O hurt dove, I bid thee come

  in my arms find solace

  together watch the time pass

  you’ll cry no more

  He’d regret why

  He made you cry.

  Goodbye

  O mercy me!

  What a hapless fate,

  I sigh o’er my loss

  for never more wit’ me she’ll sit

  nor play the old silly games

  her lambast,

  her censures;

  I’ll never see her more.

  I know she doesn’t love him,

  Not yet,

  But with time;

  She has a soft heart

  Like butter in the sun it’ll melt

  He just needs to look at her,

  Mimi would be absorbed

  Fall in love with him.

  I Wish I could marry her myself

  keep her safe in the family.

  Did Mimi have to leave, be married?

  Goodbye’s the hardest thing to say

  I shall try not to cry,

  or run away;

  I shall let the hardest minute crawl away

  but still shall break down, cry quarts,

  Goodbye’s the hardest thing to say.

  Prying Sister

  She denies it,

  yet I know it—

  I can feel it,

  smell the stench

  its worse than I imagined;

  I feel it in the air—love I mean

  I ain’t no kid anymore as they think—

  and she’s going very fast;

  Novels say it all—I read Danielle Steel.

  She’s twittery and cross,

  She blushes

  she has no appetite,

  has a timid look

  she sleeps less

  No doubt she thinks of him.

  Yesterday I snooped on her diary

  she’s written—”Mrs…”

  Infatuation has hastened the evil day for her,

  My sister.

  The Little Joe Sisters

  Impossible to tell

  How things’ve changed;

  No more do we watch the moon;

  Golden nights vanished so soon.

  I love to stay at home,

  Take care of the family, keep it safe

  The perfect wife, loving mother.

  I trusted too much,

  Hoped far beyond hope,

  Had the faith of a mustard seed;

  Loved too much,

  Yet he went away

  Far from my arms,

  So the walls came tumbling down

  And my love’s a blown out candle.

  *

  Three cheers for dear Fay

  Always so sweet,

  regular archangel

  yet so frail;

  I’ve got no problem with trust

  and love burns forever,

  But hope mirages away

  While faith takes his leave.

  I wash and rinse and wring,

  I hang the clothes in the sun to dry—

  a busy mind isn’t the devil’s workshop

  and anxious thoughts are swept away.

  I never knew he could stray

  until when he crawled to bed

  with my best friend,

  the very bed

  Where be brutally took my innocence

  and I say…

  “Head, you may think

  Heart, dear, you’re hurt, you may feel

  But, Flo, darlin’, you shall walk away.”

  *

  O poor sis!

  What a tragedy?

  All my candles forever burn

  Trust,

  Hope,

  Faith,

  and love;

  the problem is him—he’s insecure.

  I want to be a beauty queen

  and the world’s best ballerina ever,

  He wants me there at home

  In charge of dishes and dusters;

  jeez!

  That’s too traditional

  Maybe I wasn’t destined for marriage;

  I partake nudity shows—says he

  He isn’t sure I ain’t a stripper

  Or worse still, a call girl

  Or I lap dance.

  I show too much body, and booty

  to those who don’t deserve;

  He can’t stand the attention

  and the media

  Celebrity is hard for him

  He calls me Immodest Imogene,

  and can’t be with me!

  *

  Well—what do I say?

  I’m Jo, and never shall be anything else

  I don’t care, don’t give a damn

  about him.

  He stares at me, I stare at him.

  He yells at me, I yell at him.

  He gets mad, I get madder.

  We argue, and fight—for nothing

  Yet I love him like hell—

  More than I tell,

  More than I show,

  More than he’ll ever know.

  I never give up on my faith

  and I hope against all hope,

  but I’ve got a problem with trust.

  I snoop on his e-mails and SMSes,

  I hire detectives to tail him,

  Spy on him

  Just to be sure

  He isn’t cheating on me.

  He just snapped;

  Said we should breathe

  Have some time alone.

  ****

  O my poor sweet daughters

  Bereft of laughter

  in this chapter

  of your lives.

  How I feel sorry for you

  for it isn’t a bed of roses;

  Fay—

  Don’t give too much than is necessary,

  It’s dangerous.

  Florence—

  Celine Dion’s right, ‘Don’t give up on your faith,

  love comes to those who believe it, and that’s the way it is’

  Imogene—

  What a freak you are: you’d rather be loved,

  And contented, than a Queen.

  And you, my lovely Joanne,

  Your pride’s your downfall. Jo can be something else …

  Leave everything to time, make your husbands happy.

  No More Love

  “I hope I don’t see you again,”

  I told her that plain.

  She wanted me to stay

  Yet I walked away

  Never looked back (not her way anyway),

  I did not want to see the pain

  I knew was in her eyes.

  It was done

  Just like that,

  She keeps me on the loop

  Still sends those messages

  That she still loves me

  I wish I could change everything

  To another time!

  I lack the words

  what do I tell her then?

  My heart’s forgotten to love

  She can’t understand more

  Than that she does love me,

  I don’t want to lie to her,

  Pretend I know love anymore

  I just lost the feeling

  Not for her

  Not for anyone

  I don’t know what I’m going to do for her.

  Last Night

  She used to be like gin

  the sweetest taste of sin,

  just her touch

  my warm-frozen body thawed

  Making love was so natural

  It was sin to deny e
ach other.

  An accident of time occurred

  I lost the love feeling, and

  The warmth in her eyes

  Froze me to ice;

  I didn’t close my eyes when she kissed me

  She’s like the plague.

  That last night together

  she wanted us to patch up the feather

  Go back to the love we once had

  Oh!—it was such a fiasco

  I tried to think erotic thoughts

  Just for love’s sake

  It never happened.

  I now love no more

  I now love her no more

  that accident of time

  Just killed my love!

  I Hurt Her, She Loves Me

  I try to hurt her

  She try to love me,

  I wanna get caught

  She forgives me every time;

  I realize she dunno how to get hurt

  The mistake I made

  We never should have been together.

  She’s the good girl

  I’m the bad guy,

  The mistake I made

  I never should’ve played

  With her emotions

  I ain’t good for her;

  Was never made for her!

  She kneels down and prays

  Behind her back I play her

  She thinks I was sent from heaven,

  The mistake I made

  We never should’ve been together.

  She invited me into her heart

  I’m out, sleeping with other girls

  To have her hurt,

  She forgives me every time;

  The mistake I made

  I never should have

  Told her I love her

  I don’t wanna this anymore

  We never should’ve been together.

  I want her to stop loving me

  “Can’t stop loving you,” she says

  I try to hurt her

  She try to love me

  I realize she dunno how to get hurt

  The mistake I made

  We never should have been together.

  Walk Away

  It’s still fresh on my mind

  As though it’s yesterday,

  The day he told me

  Better never be together;

  That we just can’t be.

  I remember the stuff,

  the craziest things we used to do,

  Can’t believe it happened.

  I still love him—

  I mean—love him;

  it’s so hard to walk away.

  I saw him with the new girl;

  No, it’s actually the wife,

  the rank I was never promoted to

  and I admit

  they are good together.

  He has moved on,

  For me it’s the hardest thing to do

  I still love him,

  I mean—want him—

  It’s so hard to walk away.

  I never gonna walk away,

  Shall forever seek his attention.

  Without him life’s confusion

  Love of my love,

  Soul of my soul!

  Miss Smitten

  I fell in love with a girl

  Just like I ever do

  Seems like it’s a mistake

  Not a wise decision;

  Obsessed is what she is

  Clinging too much to me

  This ain’t where I wanna be

  No Mister Smitter.

  True I want to be in her arms

  when it comes time for romance

  you can see us go about it

  madly in love

  No cares in this world

  where everybody can’t help staring!

  And when the truth I said

  She said she’d die

  She can’t live without me

  Haunt me for life

  My miss smitten!

  The Seduction

  He marvelled at the beauty

  the flowers were so pretty;