Love is a strange thing
It makes you accept stranger things
And forgive the strangest of things.

You know you love someone
When you’re ready to forgive them
Anything and everything
As long as they love you back.

Love is the crime -
Those who refuse to commit
Receive no pardon
And never get to do the time
Of their lives.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river