Linton Kwesi Johnson
longtime lover
my mine run on you all the while
and I remember how first time
the two of us came together-it did seem
like two shallow little snakin streams
mawching mapless hapless a galang
through the ruggid landscape of the outskirts
an soh we did a gwaan
sohtil that fateful day
awftah the pahan a the hurricane
furdah than imagination are dreams
we find ourselves lying-dung on the same bedrack
flowing now together as a stream
riding sunlime through love lavish terrain
lush and green and bright after the rain
shimmering seed glttahrin eyes
glowing in the glre of the smiling sun
langtime lovah
I feel blue fi 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 first time
the two of us came een- it did seem
like a lang lang river that is wide and deep
sometimes we were silent like the language of a rackstone
sometimes we would sing our river songs as we wine a galang
sometimes we just cool and camp under many shady trees
sometimes sawfly lapping bamboo roots as they swing and sway
sometimes casing carefree down a steep gully bank
sometimes turbulent in tempament we flood our bank
but weddah ebb ar flow through rain through drought
we never stray far from love rigid route
ole-time sweet-out
up till now I still cyann understand
how we got bag down in some silt and sand
rockstone debris lag-jam
something we added words to flow our separate paths
now traversing the tarrid terrain a love landscape
running from the pollution half a cantrite awt
i lang for the marvelous miracle of a hurricane
to carry me to a meeting stream again
lamented my saltid fate
some say it's too late