SUPER LOVE, DEAR BOO - THE BEST POEM AT SEASON 4 EPISODE 2 LOUDTHOTZ POETRY OPEN READING WRITTEN AND READ BY Akeem Adetayo Oyalowo

AKEEM OYALOWO

Super Love, Dear Boo

It’s not about the beginning

Neither of us saw that coming

It isn’t about the end

Here’s hoping we never get there

It is the experience

All of it

That keeps striking the chords of a beating heart

It could be your eyes

When it gazes into space

Or your long strides

Tall legs walking

Or the contents and sounds

I love you talking

It’s not about the flowers

If the government isn’t planting them

They are only in books in my town

So I’m hoping your constant laughter

Is repeated in all your chapters

Because I’m here to read your book

And live lives found in its words

So that when you bask in glories

I am a part of the story

The one to hug

Standing beside

The one to turn on, o’ yes we’ll fight

And when your dreams make you kick out at night

I’ll be your victim

And it might be payback

For similar deeds done past

And if reading this you think this, a play

Carry on playing

But I’ll be there holding your hand

Bringing forth blessings, new members of the cast

It’s been said, if you want smiles to last long

Don’t make anger share its bunk

And laughter might be a twin to happiness

But a smile is the mother of joy

Remember as well all is fair in love

And the wars love bring, require them too

Super love, dear boo…

Akeem Adetayo Oyalowo

November 24, 2012