PLEASE, OPEN YOUR ARMS

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Please, open your arms
Which between them I see
A wide heaven’s gate
That quenches a rover’s thirst to trail  

 Please, open your arms
Which know not of my forlorness 
But being the witnesses to my crave 
Buried in my long journey to your heart 

 Please, open your arms
For me to bow vor before your grace 
That I shall not give thee all golds 
 But I shall make thee a glittering gold

 Please, open your arms
And make them be two perches
I shall not only roost as wanderers do
But shall live forever in your comfort.

Please, open your arms
Which will not only caress my pain
But its warmth shall bed-pet me
To sleep, making me melt in your love

 Please, open your arms
And your face will be my mirror
Which like a devotion i'll stare at
And see words that you couldn't utter

 Please, open your arms
Which in them I shall feel no fear
Of missing or losing you not to death
Which shall be so scared to come close

 Please, open your arms
And hold me tight that God Himself
Will dig either heart wider than our body
And therein to live for centuries of eternity

 Penned by; 
Anas Ɗansalma
dansalma.blogspot.com 
15th March, 2020.

Location: Asokoro, Abuja, Nigeria

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