Linton Kwesi Johnson
longtime lover
I ran on you all the while
and I remember how fus time
the two of us came together-it seemed
like two shallow little snakin stream
mawching mapless hapless galang
through the ruggid landscape of the awt sang
and thus we proceeded
sohtil that fateful day
awftah the pahan of the hurricane
further than imagination or dream
we found ourselves lay-down on the same bedrack
flowing now together as a stream
riding sunlime tru love lavish terrain
lush and green and brite awftah the rain
shimmarin sid glttahrin eyes
glowing in the glre of the smiling sun
longtime lovah
i feel blue for true when i think of you
blue like the sky lingahrin promise of rain
in the leakin lite in the hush of an evening twilite
when I remember how fus time
the two of us came een- it was seem
like a long long river that is wide and deep
sometime we were silent like the langwidge of rockstone
some time we would sing our river song as we wine a galang
sometimes we just cool and calm under many shady trees
sometimes sawfly lappin bamboo root as they swing and sway
sometimes casadin carefree down a steep gully bank
sometimes turbulent in temperament we flood our bank
but weddah ebb or flow tru rain tru drout
we never stray far from love rigid rout
ole-time sweet-awt
up till now I still can't understand
how we get bagged down in some silt and sand
rockstones debris log-jam
so that we ad woz to flow our separate pawt
now traversing the tarrid terrain of love landscape
running from the pollution of a cantrite awt
i long for the marvelous miracle of hurricane
to carry me to a meeting stream again
lamented my salty fate
sohmizin says it is too late