Urhobo
Historical
Society
Love
for Urhobo
By
Ochuko Tonukari
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
Whenever
I
hear
old
chronicles
of love, it's age
old pain,
It's ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time.
You become an image of what is remembered forever.
You
and
I
have
floated
here on the stream that
brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of
lovers,
Shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting,
the distressful tears of farewell,
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.