Her countenance was like an angel’s, so radiant. With a fixated gaze, I beheld her
countenance for eternity. Her appearance was
comely, a beauty to behold, and even in the
company she was in, she shone like a million
diamonds in darkness. Her smile was the blessing
of Venus. She was perhaps the most beautiful thing
in skirts I ever saw.
The Blind Heart is Adebanji Koiki’s autobiographical narrative of his youth’s infatuation at a glance. As a young man, Adebanji’s life, with his family, then amongst his friends and in his university, lost its idyllic, hardy pleasure when his heart was stolen by a gaze at a beautiful young lady. Koiki leads you through the story of his puerile-hearted love, through feelings of discouragement, seeming victories, and the endless, whimsical complications of his weak-willed, irresolute lover, with the story ending, as most real life stories do, in disappointment and defeat. I recommend this story to anyone willing to take a sympathetic read at a real story of a real man and his struggles with the thing that we carelessly call love.
I guess in life, we don’t always get everything we
want . . . .
Imani Bey is a prolific writer, she also manages http://novel-news-earthworld.blogspot.com
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