ROMANCE: "INGOTI YES KANI" BY MAURICE N CHIADZWA

See, I want to make you my healthy addiction

After all, you are already my hype and sensation

To think I have always been so rational, a non-romantic

But you have given me emotions, beyond explanation nor logic

How you make all my storming fears take a chill pill

How you tell a broken heart to heal and feel

The way you give me rest and comfort, I can’t tell

In you, I sit comfortably like a pod in a nutshell…

My heart will beat for you till the end of time

And we’ll be together like two words in a rhyme

I want to hold your hand and sink into depths

I want to breathe only your love, nothing more in each breath

And those lips, look like they might feel like sunrise in every kiss

So help me out here, I am dying to make you Mrs…

Nights feel like I am in the midst of a thousand candles with you

Now I know there is no darkness your love won’t pull me through

If there is anything that lovers do on this small rock called earth

Then I want to do it with you, and do it till our final breath

Oh yeah, I want to love you in ways that are written in colour

And never let this world get any fainter nor duller

I don’t want to do anything with anyone else

But I want to hold you dearly, like diamonds and pearls

Those glitters of love that now give a glow to my soul

I have never felt such a fire within me, now I don’t want to let it go

I promise my hands don’t break hearts, they hold them dearly

My words don’t carry cinematic tales of love, I speak earnestly

So can I love you, and officially call you Sthandwa sami

Is it too much to say, dear ingoti “Yes” kani

©MAURICE N CHIADZWA

-Zimbabwe 

“Ingoti Yes Kani” is a contemporary romantic lyric poem that explores the transformative power of love and the desire for lifelong companionship. The poet expresses how his beloved has softened his previously rational and non-romantic disposition, becoming a source of comfort, emotional healing and happiness. Through affectionate expressions and vivid romantic imagery, he conveys his deep attachment, sincerity and willingness to share life's experiences with her. The poem culminates in a heartfelt marriage proposal, as the speaker seeks her acceptance and promises a love founded on genuine affection, trust and lasting commitment.