Because I love you

Because I love you

I’ll teach you how to live this life

I’ll make you wise and show you the tricks to survive

Just listen and learn

Hearken to my instructions

I know all you need to

I’ll help you

Because I love you

I’ll share with you my mediocrity

I’ll offer you the very advice that limited me

I’ll teach you all the wrong things I learnt from trusted tutors

Embrace my gifts to you; timidity and cowardice…you’ll need them

Don’t stand up for truth and justice, they often cost too much

Don’t risk failure, even if it promises great success, true joy and personal fulfillment later on

Right things don’t always work here… so please pursue what does

I know you may not quite get it now

But still I’m taking the pains to tell you this

Because I love you

I won’t let you make the same mistake

I won’t watch you carry a heavy cross

I won’t let you be a Mandela, Martin Luther King Jnr or a Jesus

No! I love you too much for that.

I want you around, I want you well,

I want you prospering; even though in cyclical nothingness

I want to see you great; it’s a worthy exchange for heroic purposefulness

I wish you well my friend, my student, my brother, my son and dear colleague

Please forgive me if I sound too caring

I mean you no harm

It’s simply because I love you

That’s why I’ve refused to entertain your queries

See, I don’t care whether or not you agree

And it doesn’t really matter to me that you might be a revolutionary

You are just being naive …there’s little sense you could make right now

You just can’t be right enough to do different!

You can’t be wiser than all of us who’ve walked this path

You can only be like us or worse

So please heed my loving guidance

‘Cos I hope to lovingly welcome you to a ‘safe’ future of shallowness
I'm whole hardheartedly inviting you now

Because I love

I’ll give you all you need that I have

though I don’t have your next breath

I’ll tell you all you need to know

though I don’t know tomorrow

I’ll bear with you every of your load

though you’ll have to handle your own regrets

I’ll guide you through all of life

though you’ll eventually stand alone to give account before God

See how much I can do for you?

BECAUSE I LOVE YOU!