�If only you were to me like a brother Who was nursed at my mother�s breast, Then if I found you outside I would kiss you and no one would mind�� These are not the lyrics of a �wiase ndwom.� These are words from the Song of Songs in the bible. And there are more. For whoever wrote Solomon�s Song of Songs appreciated the beauty of poetry and understood that poetry nourished the human soul. Song of Songs enriches the bible and its story of love adds to the politics, murder, miracles, adultery, magic and wars that grace the good book. For the bible is after all, a human story, with all the attendant