The price you pay

to love another
is to sometimes be blind
and sometimes play dumb
for efforts not to be in vain

to love another
there are no rules outlined
everybody is a piece of scum
and we all settle for our favourite pain

to love another
is to trust unconfined,
to learn to play the alum
in the days the colour of the water isn’t plain

to love another
is to keep your emotions quarantined.

Tomide Abdul