Seboni's love songs.... Part 2 (continued from last week)

This week, Valentine's week, is filled with love in all its forms and Barolong Seboni's literary work, Lovesongs, has come as the number one source of romantic lines for lovers.

While it caters for such occasions, one needs to approach the collection with an open mind so as to learn and be nourished by the poetry.  What is love and what is to love?
These are philosophical questions that, somewhere in the anthology, Seboni attempts to address. Love is selfless, he says in the poem titled Selfless. This poem is rich in meaning although it is one of Seboni's shortest poems in the anthology.

"I have to love myself selfishly before I can love you selflessly," it goes.  He is simply saying the understanding of the meaning of loving someone should begin inside you, loving yourself.

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