ELUSIVENESS; IN SEARCH OF LOVE!

I looked for you on the outside 

You appeared in different shades & colours 

Oh, I was wrong 

Did I expect to find you everywhere? 

You are beauty beneath the bones

For all the times I raced for my life 

I imagined if I will ever find you 

Maybe I was not meant to find you 

Just maybe I do not deserve your comfort 

You are beauty beneath the surface

I looked for you in shapes 

Are you that pretty face? 

My conviction of you is weak 

Maybe you do not exist anyways

The world said they have you 

But they painted you in multiple pictures 

Maybe you meant different things to different folks

Maybe you meant nothing to them all

I asked myself 

Have I lost you in those multitude of faces? 

Have you come to me in a shape I did not desire? 

Your complexion was dark & fair

Maybe I walked past you the other day 

Maybe I had you and let you slip through my fingers 

You should have told me it was you

Yinka Olonode

#WorldPoetryDay