So Little For Love By Ubaji Isiaka Abubakar

So Little for Love

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I learnt Adam and Samson fell

For the sake of love,

Yet, I think their acts too diminutive

For such a noble cause as love.

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For love shall I call back olden days of chivalry

Defeat foes and request them seek penance from milady, 

I shall crush the heads of multitudes,

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Wipe my crimson sword with flesh,

Then sit on my horse and dedicate

My knightly endeavours to milady

But even that; me thinks; is still too small

A thing to do for love.

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For love shall I rebuild the Taj Mahal

But not on the Indian soil nor anywhere on earth

I shall have it built on the moon

Every of its bricks will be cast in gold

With milady's name crested on them.

I shall plant trees on the moon and have water

Taken from the earth to water them daily

Yet I fear that would not do.

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If only this would do;

I should reenact the Trojan war

But ten years will be too small--

I shall fight till the end of World War II--

For if ugly Helen could have men fight for ten years

Milady deserves a trillion more;

Yet will it be of little worth for love's sake.

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All the pyramids of Egypt

Combined with that of the Aztec race

Will be just a grain in the ocean of love. 

And even if I gifted the Hanging Gardens

It only proves how little I love milady.

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Should I give her the earth

Nay, let us say the universe as a whole

And everything in it

I should still find no satiation

I should still think I could have done far better

For love is worth a million universes

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And even if I carve out my heart

And present it to milady on a platter of gold

And kneel before her as blood gushes out of my chest

I should still cry and tear out the hairs on my head

While berating myself for having done so little for love.

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Copyright Ubaji Isiaka Abubakar Eazy 2016

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