The You Me

by Leonard Masauli
(Malawi, Central Africa)

An endless search for a new Joy
A shared happiness even when sad
The beginning of unknown era
The YOU and ME

I saw you before you saw me
I met you before you met me
I spoke to you before you spoke to me
The ‘ME before YOU’

Now I see you but you do not
That it is YOU in ME,
And ME in YOU
But I can’t be so inconsiderate
That it is always me before you,
Until I replace ME with YOU