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.
