The day you came to me
by Linda Jummai Mustafa
On the road we stood, two people with unsung songs
dancing to the beats of nothingness,
We built our home and future with just a few looks at each other.
My heart worked again after you called,
unicorns and fiery phoenixes flying around my consciousness
as my watch clicked with joy to tell
me when to stop staring.
The rhythm of happiness soaring high in my heart,
once cold, but now warm from a touch at midday.
In my mind’s eye, I see you forever handsome
as you walk me back to where it all started,
that first time, we travelled in a time machine into our own space
your love illuminating the stillness of water.
IMAGE: Double Heart by CatDancing.
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: The first time I met my husband, it was a day my life turned around. I was depressed and lost. I did not know how I would live until he happened. Till this day, the love we have for each other has held us tightly together and I couldn’t be happier. He is my world and when I am with him, I forget all the madness in the world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Linda Jummai Mustafa teaches Literature-in-English in Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University Lapai, Niger State, Nigeria. She is a published poet and the author of a collection of short stories titled What If…?
Silver Birch Press 
Wow. Lovely and romantic. Thankful you found each other.
Thank you.
This reminds me of meeting my Michael. How lost I feel without him. Perhaps we might meet again in paradise?
A soul-touching first encounter between two lovers soothingly expressed with that zest of John Donne. Linda Jummai Mustafa is an emerging African writer of the calibre of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to be reckoned with.
Thanks