POETRY: "Night By: Fareedah Abdulkareem

 Is it dark?
 Is everyone drowned in the sea of sleep?
 Is the moon the only lamp left ?
 Is my Beloved's eye a star? 

 Now, all I see in your eyes are stars,
 Glittering like a diamond in the dark,
 Were those almond-shaped eyes made from the Pacific? 

 Tonight,Let's not go home,
 Let's not go where the cruel-eye scrutinizes our recluse love,
When you're here there's nothing to worry,

My Beloved,
Let us go where the heart instructs,
Let us live a lifetime tonight,
Let us live an entire lifetime and leave memories like Love Legends,

Let's set out to our rendezvous,
Let us fall down and rise up again,
Let me give my wings to you so you fly into my kingdom,
Let your bangles and bracelet jingle and chime in my courtyard.

For this night might be the last night,
The last night for our hands to touch,
The last night for our coward affection.

On a chill morn in July,2018.
Oluwashikemi.