LOVE SLAVE

A free man was I

Uncontrolled and unrestrained

By no master constrained

And no evil indulgence I refrained

Hate being chief of all

While I be chief of me

That liberty I loved

But my life I unloved

For all be misery that I had

And all be misery that I gave

And that I gave with such glee!

Hate-twisted face in a perpetual grin

But how I cannot tell

For by the hand of love I fell

This alien force my life captured

At its feet my liberty laid ruptured

Against my will of wills

A bond slave became I

To the servitude of love

It won’t be so long

Or so I thought

Its shackles will slacken

And its hold off me be taken

Then again will I be free

Free to my hate feed

Oh what delight the thought brought!

In that hope stayed I bound

A bond slave to love

And bound stayed I long

So long

…too long

For then all be love that I received

And then all be love that I gave

Because that be all I then had

In the servitude of love

Against my will of wills

Stayed I

Or so thought I

So my shock you may imagine

When I my master told

In the servitude of love

You have stayed bound for long

Now if you so choose

Today you are loosed

To your freedom you may return

And your hate you may resume

But to my greater shock

Such that my whole frame shook

To the realization I came

The freedom I once craved

To me no more appealed

And as it now appears

A love slave I now am

By my will of wills

A love slave I want to stay

Ovie Mordi, Copyright 2012