Living in the 21st Century 15: Love and Hate (Day & Night)

Louis Egbe Mbua

 The wise does not have a self-praise

But praises to the Creator he gives.

He who is in the house scatters

Shall have nothing in his barn but hate,

And he who in high place friends collects

Will in abundance in store as love.

Better a little a man with love abides

Than he who has so much with hate.

That who loves is with eyes open wide,

Yet that who hates’ with eyes shut tight:

 

Vision is to further see

As darkness’ to shorter sight

Vision’s to daylight

As darkness’ to night

Bitter is the taste

As darkness’ to hate

The real honey is too sweet

As a woman is to love!

 

Remember the past of a rumble

And blot not today in solitude

As the little love shown a past

Transforms future can never to hate.

A man who for hate forgets to love

Has a memory less inanimate.

Always in gratitude in awe strive

For that is a duty for a man in love

With the bride in the aisle oblige

To walk in the way of the Lord:

Dreaming is to the true seer

But a mirage is a shimmer

A dream in the night

 And mirage in the day

Sweet’s the juicy fruit

As a dream turns true,

The real money is so good

And the dressed bride is in love!