Did you feel the electricity? <br />Electrons simmering your body <br />Like strings attaching electrodes <br />-In a love electrolyte <br /> <br />Did you feel the chemistry? <br />Like soap blending with linen <br />Cleanliness colored desires <br />-In that silent blend of our palms? <br /> <br />Did you sense the passion in the eyes? <br />Did you see posterity unfold? <br />Like a video record of past events <br />As you looked away when our eyes met? <br /> <br />Tell me you felt that creeping loneliness <br />Like an ice ball in the heart <br />As your fingers slid off my grasp <br />And you graciously heaved your nubile body away <br /> <br />Didn't you feel the forces of cohesion? <br />Like molecules of water drawing together <br />Too strong to form an embrace and kiss, <br />As you muttered bye in that silence of dusk? <br /> <br />Did you feel it too mrembo? <br />Like fitting in the rib cage, where God molded you from? <br />Like finding the long strayed rib, that God took away? <br />The culmination of the most natural alliance? <br /> <br />Tell me child of Kimani <br />Didn't you feel the same way *lakini? <br />What is the secret in the lines of your smiles? <br />Beneath your heart confines, what lies? <br /> <br /> <br /> *Mrembo: a Swahili vocabulary meaning beautiful one <br /> *Lakini: Swahili vocabulary meaning, really?<br /><br />VICTOR ONDIEKI<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/strings-attached-4/
