The Taste Of Love Poem by Londizwi Shezi

The taste of love
As I marched,
inside the intestines
Of mother earth,
Tons of waste was all over the place,
Some disguised as light,
As food to keep
While it was just food to eat,
Some ingested waste while I was in the wait
For the one worthy,
As I reached the heart of mother earth,
There you were,
With your beautiful smile
Lord this be better not be a lie,
I prayed,
She glowed like a sun
When it had just woken up
from it peaceful sleep,
From the east
Where david would face while he prayed,
And his prayers would be heard,
For the first time I tasted love,
That sour sweet taste
The one that you cannot explain,
She had big dreams like me,
The endless love we promised to each other
Which even death cannot do apart,
Lord this be better not be a dream,
I prayed,
Again,
Now I can tell the world
That love is real
And it all that it need,
It requires no materialism
Fancy talks and manipulation,
As that belongs to waste,
But it require two souls binded by grace,
As I held her closer to my chest,
My heart knocked like it was
About to imploded or burst,
As it had met it equal,
The smell of love,
Similar to that of the breath
I took on my arrival,
Was it real
Or just a dream,
As the other day
I woke up
And realized,
She was gone
Gone with no hope for return,
The heart of mother earth burst like a bomb
to my face,
Maybe im still a kid I need to go back to the womb
and occupy my space,
The womb of mother earth as her heart was torn,
Was it just a test
Or a taste,
As her heart was torn to pieces
she could no longer answer my questions,