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<p>[dropcap]A[/dropcap] hundred lines<br>
From a bothered mind<br>
To his coy mistress</p>
<p>To his coy mistress, pure and chaste<br>
To sheer beauty, to poise and taste</p>
<p>Even a hundred hour<br>
Seems little enough<br>
To halt my lust e-motion<br>
Coy mistress, fairest of them all<br>
Around you, perfection has built a wall</p>
<p>[dropcap]M[/dropcap]istress, Oh Coy Mistres<br>
Thou art the goddess of my muse<br>
Haunting other creatures that lives<br>
In between these lines and verses</p>
<p>Mistress, Oh Coy Mistress<br>
Your eyes tell a thousand tales<br>
Exuding radiance, drowning distress<br>
Succeeding where pure emotion fails</p>
<p>Mistress, I’ll sing you a love song<br>
Write you duets on every blank page<br>
I hear that romance lacks a tongue<br>
Mistress, let mine take centre stage</p>
<p>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]wait me, while I get my pen refilled<br>
Shall I hire the wind to make guesses?<br>
Of my hidden desires, now revealed?</p>
<p>I spoke for long of you, coy mistress<br>
I spoke of grace, of beauty endless<br>
I spoke of dance, I hoped for romance<br>
I spoke; still I never got the chance</p>
<p>The morning sun slowly on the rise<br>
Is nothing, to the secrets hidden in your eyes<br>
And Calypso, with the world at her fee<br>
Couldn’t beat your smile, with the gap on your teeth<br>
Your dark and lovely looking hair<br>
Not one princess could stand to compare<br>
And ‘beautiful’, if one ever said such a thing<br>
Would fall short of describing your skin</p>
<p>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen shall love be fair enough?<br>
On the day that I shall find me<br>
In this lust jungle where I am lost<br>
Mistress, oh coy Mistress<br>
Let last-night, be the last night<br>
When the moon that sits above<br>
Shall witness our hearts at war</p>
<p>Patience, I hear, is your secret key<br>
And how I long to open your heart<br>
But while I am willing to pay any fee<br>
Old age approaches, and our youth departs</p>
<p>[dropcap]H[/dropcap]ow long shall we both be drowned<br>
In the pretentious pool of hatred?<br>
And though, it stinks, yet we swim<br>
Tell me, darling coy mistress<br>
Shall you lay down your ears<br>
To hurtful echoes of the past?<br>
Denying me, my dearly desires<br>
Those words, stuck in my throat<br>
Now, loudly screamed by my thoughts<br>
Are but sincere sketches of emotion</p>
<p>I’ve sung to your ears a solo<br>
I’ve ceaselessly sung your praise<br>
Words from your lips I follow<br>
Still, I am yet to understand your ways<br>
Mistress, Oh coy Mistress<br>
For how long am I to stand in line<br>
We’ll both die, practicing suspense<br>
Mistress, we have but limited time</p>
<p>[dropcap]I[/dropcap] dare you, dearly darling mistress<br>
Come bruise me with graceful glances<br>
And stampede my terrific thoughts<br>
With tramps from your lusty feet</p>
<p>Thoughts of you are like the sunlight<br>
Giving pleasure and causing pain<br>
Still I think of you late in the midnight<br>
Anticipating the moment when I’ll get my gain<br>
When the wind will finally whisper your graces<br>
And the tiny insects would then sing my praises<br>
When I would savour the taste of your lips<br>
While I worship in the sanctuary of your hips</p>
<p>[dropcap]B[/dropcap]ut shall we grow grey hair, here<br>
Awaiting the perfect time and place<br>
It dwells, but deep down in the grave?<br>
Tonight shall seem two-nights<br>
For I shall plead the evil-moon<br>
To dim its light or leave the sky<br>
Till the deed’s done, and the virgin’s gone<br>
When, on that sacred night,<br>
You shut the doors of your heart<br>
Be kind, to lock me behind the door</p>
<p>I’ll hope for all mankind when my heart is set on fire<br>
Woe and misery would betide, he who walks in upon desire</p>
<p>[dropcap]M[/dropcap]arvel not, that I have spoken your heart<br>
For the wind served me several dishes<br>
Of all your lonely whispers and wishes<br>
They have mated and birthed this art</p>
<p>Behold coy mistress, the time has come<br>
The last hour, before the deed be done</p>
<p>Daylight goes, here comes the night</p>
<p>Coy mistress, to thee I pray</p>
<p>A hundred lines to foretell virginity’s flight</p>
<p>Let not this night pass away</p>
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<p>Written by:<strong> Veekthur Victor <a href="www.twitter.com/veekthur" target="_blank">(@veekthur)</a> </strong>and<strong> Olukayode Akintunmile <a href="www.twitter.com/Sladenic" target="_blank">(@Sladenic)</a></strong></p>
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