Not for what you
Can do for me but
For what you are to me
I love you
Asking no more of you
No more than you
To love me back
I love you
With a jealous heart
Know what I mean?
I miss you
To kiss you
I feel you
Not seeing you
I hold you
Apart from you
I stretch out my hand
In the middle of the night
Groping for that love
That I know is there
And I touch it
Somewhere in my dreams
Those sweet dreams of you
When away from you
Loving dreams of you
And I smile
Sleeping I smile
When in dreams’ land
You smile back at me
Saying back to me
Those three words
I love you
Saying
Akekho ofana nawe, baby!
Love
Love for no reason
For each blessed season
There’s no comparison
Our love has no compare
Only I alone know
How well you communicate
Without spitting a word just
Watching touching shaking
Winking tickling chuckling
Woman, you!
Music, you!
Magic, you!
Love is you!
I lie pensive in the night
Making love to the paper
With a pen
Really thinking of it
I really wish you were here
Laying down beside me
Saying things to me
Body language to me
Only I alone know
How well you communicate
Only I alone know
Only I alone
Only I
I, love you
LLM Mbatha
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-love-you-57/
