How I Want to Be Truely Loved - Visitor's Poem

by Zubaida Ahmed
(Sierra Leone)

Don't fall in love with me
Like you fall in love
With the dream world
All dreamers are liars.
Don't fall in love with me
Like you fall in love
With your shadow
At night falls shadow disappears.
Love me just for what I am.
Try once to keep far away from me
And see how you feel.
Absence sharpens love and makes
The heart grows fonder.
Try to come back and see the difference.
Presence strenghtens love.
Can you see me?
I am here next to your heart
Love me tenderly,
Hold me like you never want me go.
Say you love me a million times
Only when you feel it
Only when you see the difference.