Dear Future Husband by Ndifreke George

You must be that goodly creature

Painted in my nervous imagination

Feeding my heart with strawberries

And sandwich of hope and faith

My heart has been trailing you since in Eden

Like a poor teenager

Stalking on an impossible crush

I see you in your torn blue pants

And faded oversized shirt with unequal sleeves

Skipping like an excited calf

Running errands for life

For a reward of tomorrow’s bread
I look beyond your flat chest

Into the ineffable strength of your manhood

A peerless bravery and untamable desire

To take the world by storm

And fill your life’s hyphen

With a history of earthly immortality

I see beyond your rumpled stomach

Littered with protesting ribs

And its music of hunger pangs and bites

Into an ocean of living water

Welling to gush out in pacific torrents

I see beyond your unkempt hair

Bribed into a rough fold of Mike Tyson’s crew cut

Into your endless bank of imagination and creativity

Your desire to see cars run on water like fuel

The heart of men divorce evil to marry good

And love defeat freed in a flawless contest

I look beyond your tattered and haggard look

And cruel nights with slaps from loneliness

Into a now future of you and I

A life of two twined into one by fate

Cos I can hear the voice of your man

Calling out to the woman in me
ABOUT AUTHOR

Ndifreke George is an emerging Nigerian graduate and writer. Few of his works have appeared on; The Kalahari Review, Tuck Magazine, Poems and Poetry, The Poet community, Praxis Magazine, Social justice poetry, Bravearts Africa and The Antartica Journal. 

Presently, he works as a Volunteer Literary Contributor for Bravearts Africa, and a scriptwriter for HumourTV (an online comic platform). He is very inspirational and graced with a good sense of humour.