JEREMIAD ON ROMANTICISM_'IFE OKUNKUN (DARK LOVE)' BY TIKOMART.

When we first met...

I thought I have seen someone,

I could address my true love promisingly.

Oh Ifemi... 

Aadunmi, Ife!

This was the rhythm of songs

that came across my mind,

you jingled my thoughts, all nights,

with the memories of your passionate bell.

I fell deeply in love with you,

like I was born to surrender you my heart,

and I named you...

I crowned you 'Teminikan ( mine alone)',

without knowing it was a dark love,

still it is.

Just as the sun glitters as black,

so does our love brighten the reliable cloud.

Once the rain drops on me,

my skin feels like I’m showered with your love.

I never knew Dark love exists,

until you said with your own mouth,

that our love have to stand still as a  statue,

or just like a stagnant water?

What was your impression Okanmi?

The train of our love became so faulty,

that all counsellors rejected the call of our broken tales.

You asked me to look for another train,

you ordered me to search another train of love,

to take me to my destination,

when yours is on the way?

Oooo Eledumare!

My mother warned,

so truly Ife okunkun( dark love) truly exists.

TIKOMART.

The bard deeply laments how the man she trusts deserts her to loneliness. She has no other option, and this brings her down to writing out her sorrows.