THE CANDLELIGHT

Follow me inside Safarawu
Even though I know little of
The north.
Let us shut out the many
Eyes scrutiny
Let us shut them out again tonight
Those lights that search our bodies
For the lines between you
And me
Determined to light up our
differences.
 
From inside the secret of
our bedroom
The flickering candlelight
of love
Throws two dancing
photographs on the wall.
Naked and colourless like
Adam and Hauwawu
Dancing to an unheard rhythm
On the wall
Near our matrimonial bed.
 
And the candlelight flickers on
And the images on the wall
Dance on
In a harmony that merges us
Together forever.
 
One night we will carry
their eyes
In here to see this
colourless conjugation
Of our spirits as man and wife.
To find out the dull angles
Of our religious marks.