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 </div><p></p>Àwèrò mi,<br>
that year, you gave me your heart<br>
and I gave you mine.<br>
It was an exchange; heart for heart;<br>
soul for soul.
<p>The day was February 13,<br>
a day before the world marked its own love.<br>
It had to be that day.<br>
For, our own love would help light lanterns<br>
in hearts devoid of love’s lucid light.</p>
<p>It was underneath that palm tree,<br>
beside the crystal clear stream that swam into the River Awelewa (River of beauties),<br>
that we first took our oaths.</p>
<p>The Sun had intensely kissed green leaves<br>
and they smiled at the delight of his lips;<br>
warm, luscious, lively, fizzy;<br>
tender and soft like freshly baked bread.</p>
<p>It was from him that I learnt the way around your lips;<br>
It was he who taught me how to navigate the crooks and the bends.<br>
He showed me a fire that burns<br>
but never destroys.</p>
<p>Remember how we burnt together?<br>
How we swam desirously in the lake of fire<br>
produced by our intense passion?</p>
<p>It was the gentle current of affection<br>
keeping us afloat in Love’s lake of fire.</p>
<p>It was upon the black earth on which that palm tree built its castle<br>
that we first saw the color of each other’s heart.<br>
Mine was red and yours white.<br>
They were the colors that would come with the day that followed the day our exchange took place.</p>
<p>My red heart is firmly fitted in the white bossom behind your immaculate breasts<br>
and yours is in the red home behind<br>
this sturdy chest of mine.</p>
<p>Àwèrò mi,<br>
I write this to put you in remembrance<br>
that we must never come apart.<br>
For, we both bore each other’s soul<br>
while the Sun gently serenaded green leaves.</p>
<p>Àwèrò mi,<br>
we must never come apart.<br>
For, our hearts are intertwined.<br>
Your beat is my beat.<br>
My beat is your beat.</p>
<p>Àwèrò mi,<br>
I know 30 years have breezed past us now<br>
and we have enjoyed such heavenly bliss.<br>
But, a little reminder would do no harm.</p>
<p>Happy anniversary to us Àwèrò!<br>
I, Dáúdù òré aláso (friend of the cloth-maker),<br>
love you with all my heart!</p>
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