Oh How I Love Thee

By Dwight Jenkins

PROMPT—Never will I forget ...

Remember what you told me when you spoke with your heart?

How we swore that no earthy distractions could keep us apart.

Do you remember how love tasted when sprinkled on our lips?

And how like a leaf you would undulate before me dangling your hips.

I know how love tastes because my eyes have been hardly dry.

And the sadness inside of me increases daily and I don’t know how to cry.

You were the Mother of my children and the caretaker of my soul.

And when I looked into your eyes—I saw the story of our love unfold.

Now darling that you have gone on to meet your heavenly father in the sky.

I know now that it is memories that captures love, holds onto it, embraces it,

Ensuring that its essence and its fragrance will never die.

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Dwight Jenkins is a former Criminal and Immigration lawyer who was born in Montreal and presently lives in Ajax, Ontario. Dwight aspires to write spiritual, cultural and political poetry, elegies, odes, and devotionals. Dwight practices different aspects of both the Hindu and Catholic religion. Dwight enjoys participating in open mic performances which at times include dance and song.