Blind Lovers Poem by Emmanuel Arunee Mwanza

we are free
we are just two
you and me
that's how it all started

2 years ago on a day like this
you and I met
That's when it all begun

Alright,
lets not get into the details of how we met
but get down to what we became
LOVERS
We were free
to love
Joyfully we sat next to each other
each time we met
you leaned against me
our eyes
I am sure they went against nature
I felt mine rotate 360 degrees around my eyes orbits
just to look at you
Maybe yours did too
our eyes as attracting ions
the negative and the positive
we were just two
we were close
but inside that's where the whole story lay
waiting to be unfolded
where only you could have your real story
I had my real story too
The people did not see that
They saw a story of two young lovers unfolding
yet beneath our hearts
there
Written beneath your heart
Hidden to my precious heart
Hidden to the ever willing
Hidden to the ever searching
Heart
This heart of mine
And you were blind
Just as I was
You did no see my love
It was hidden in your little fantasies
That I call lies
...if any one asks me
I would say that was her-art
Hiding things in the heart
and silly me
I would not see
And my love for you blindfolded me
from the truth
from reality
I was blinded
Lets say we were blind lovers
Only that there was just different blindness that blinded us
Your lies that I wouldnt see
And the love that you wouldnt see
What was it?
How could it be?
2 years later
2 loving people turned into a cat and dog
No explanations
For one to say
Not even for one to get
let alone understand
But simply we were blind lovers
who both had wished
but could not see
did not know how to
be in real lovers
So after 2 years we became
enemies so to say
a consequence of our blindness