Girl of my sweet dreams
white eyes and brown skin,
kinky locks of charcoal hair,
I long to you and I pair.
daughter of black africa,
its you I long after.
but how will you douse my flames
when you still lurch in my dreams?
come hither to my reality,
Inamorata, for you I wait.

© Nkiru Njoku, June 17, 2003