TAKE ME, 'ALL IT TAKES'

Let all it takes makes me win the stakes

I am drowning my pride for  what is now at stake

I am bold I now say I love you 'all it takes'

I love you: be mine now and forever

 

Be mine now that it is Our prime

Let me know all that it takes

Let me of this stake partake

Let me also of pure love taste.

 

The pernury of now discourages

Whenever I think of calling up courage to you

The dimes of my wallet gives me regrets

Mind not my dimes, mind not my mite, please be mine.

 

You are my brilliant flower of love

The bright flower of pure parts

You are my fascinating flower of affection

The fair flower of brilliant petals

 

You are the Mayflower; the flower of my being

You are my mayflower: my only sure thing

You are my bright flower of spring

I want to love you with my everything.

Every other fact may seem unsure

But I am sure that this love is pure

Purer than the grains of raindrops

Neater than the sands of mountaintops.

 

Hold me: Let me feel I am loved

Touch me: Let my emotions up

Hug me: Let me hear your heart's pulse

Tender me: Let me know you are my nurse.

 

My temper has risen the temper of love

My mind makes music the music of love

Let me relish in the joy of its pleasant pleasure

Let me be lost in all its secret splendour.

 

The love of my life: my life throb

The thoughts of my everyday: my daily brood

The rhythms of my heart: my constant countenance

The compass of my path: my compulsive ordinance.

 

Toy with me: tender me gently

Sing to me: let it sound smoothly

Tickle me: make me murmur with pleasure

Treasure me: make me know your love is sure

(c) Jude adebosoye Ogunade. Ivory coast, 1999