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Love Like Poetry

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Heart, Love and Peace Eyes dark piercing into brown Chocolate skin melting against caramel's Magnetic opposite. Two worlds. One soul. They say he's a soup brimming with oil, bland and lifeless With words blasting like drums, I'm asked - "what did you see in him"? And oh, I'm the girl who eats a rock and swallows zero water I'm the girl with beaded waist and ringed ears Moving with rhythm like the bata drum My bum cheeks kissing each each other enticingly Soft like hot butter But you're more than shawarma, free WI-FI and credit alert Love Like Poetry With cares as little as a child, he tops the chart I've always known he was from another planet An alien being. How can one embody so much perfection? My blue boy... Seven men in one Rare as scoring 10/10 in a lecturer's English essay Rare as the sight of the crispy new 100 naira note And as the sight of gold on the earth surface I rememb