WHAT IS THIS?

Love.........

What is Love?

What is this thing called love?

What is this emotion man is saddled with by nature?

What is this feeling that destroys and heals man's heart?

What might I call this feeling which hurts my soul?

This feeling though unrequited which is not understood.

For once hath thou poured out thy heart in tears

With pleas that ye may not be one day a past memory

Did I summon all strength that I may not disappoint you

Of great comfort and a peace of mind hath you been

Yet thou tortures me with sadness and a crazed mind

Did I all things to forever make you happy

Yet with such generosity you pay me back with such gloom

To what shall it profit a man if he loves his wife but loses her love?

What is this disease which carts away my reasoning?

Ovid advices me to cure this disease by going on journeys

But though I suffer from this affliction

I do not want to be cured of this ailment

For the one I love is my life

And if I be cured of this sickness

Doth marks the end of my life

And I dissolve into the dust from which I came

And my soul shall forever roam the earth

For I die not of a natural cause

But I am murdered

Hand in hand by my lover and her accomplice love

And ask

What is this merciless thing called love?

Adesina Aanuoluwapo John - 2015