MY DOVE, MY UNDEFILED IS BUT ONE, MAY I NEVER REST UNTIL SHE IS MINE. by Reindolf Amankwa✍

One day as I was cascading down the steep slope that led to the narrow bridge at the bottom of the hill, our eyes met. It looked like a head-on meeting on the bridge. Truly, these could have been the words of Chinua Achebe yet spilled by a young man such as me who could have been sure of meeting love.

Noticing her at once, taking off my eyes from this beauty would be dangerous I said. Indeed like all other men of good sight who cherish beauty especially of a woman, I could never have been more dead to her love all at once as I did. For if she continuously stared at me or was looking elsewhere, I could not be more or less concerned. All I wanted was not to lose sight of her. Indeed, she's beautiful.

Her two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, and her neck as a tower of ivory. Patiently did I enjoy observing and wanting to enter a trance where I would at once stand with her before the alter of joinery. Inevitably, she's worth being my accomplice in love affairs for her fairness is unique amongst the many.

My dove, my undefiled is but one. Wanting to be in trance I drew more closely to at least hear her voice. It was then I realised we had met for destiny sake. Destiny they say does not lie, neither does it fail. She's the only one of her mother, she's the choice of her that bare her. In my Akan dialect, she would be both the "piesie" and "kaakyire". I would however call her by the latter.

Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? Indeed my dove and undefiled is but one. May I never rest until she's called mine. Let me find her as undefiled as a virgin, being so precious as highly as of a bride prize. As I seat calmly in the quiet corner of my abode, may my dreams never end being filled with smiles of her beauty in mind. Those are my words but who is this lady whose beauty I can't stop dreaming about?

Written by
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Reindolf Amankwa✍🏾
(Writer, NNSOROMA PUBLICATIONS)
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