The Intended wife part 4

(Who is big?)

I have woken up earlier than you today

So, you can answer my questions

When you are still sober.

I don’t want you to think that I do

What I do because of what I carry in my calabash.

 

Yes, mistaken man,

What nonsense do you have this morning again?

What is wrong with you,

Were you born on the right side of the bed?

What woke you to disturb my last nap of sleep

This early morning?

 

Woman, do you realize you are talking

To a man who owns both you and this house?

Just yesterday you threw me out of my own house,

I want you to tell me this morning,

Who is big in this house?

 

Why are some men born too foolish?

To understand what they are?

Coming back to you,

Big as in irresponsibility and

Thankless like you or in what sense?

Listen to me you idiot!

The bigness of a man is not in the size

Or how much he spends on drinking and women

A man is a man when he

Manages his family accordingly

 

Woman, shut up that basket mouth before

I roar like a male lion,

Stop this moment lest I slap your mouth.

Sit down and let me teach

This dull head what a man is,

Do you expand a family line?

Do you inherit family property?

Do you build a house?

Do you pay dowry?

Do you impregnant a woman?

It is a man who does that.

Challenge my authority and I show you

What a man is made up of

You Primitive woman.

 

Try me this moment and

I define for you what fire is,

I will castrate you and leave you manless

I am going to force sense into your empty skull

And you will know

that a real man shares responsibility,

go and impregnant stones

and I see how you expand your family line

what a brain that went to school

and became more foolish than before.

Some men are just masculine proper nouns

That make up parts of speech.

 

The Intended wife part 5

      (Modest warning)

I stand on these my feet

To sound this warning to you

My good useless man,

If you think your position

In this home will allow you lead us badly

Then your dream is still premature

You better wake up from sleep.

 

My dear beloved African man,

I want you to know that we are equal

We are all human beings using blood,

You may be big but you can’t solve all challenges.

Will you breastfeed baby ZERO when I am gone?

My crude love, when I leave you,

You will no longer have a home but a house,

You will have no title,

So, stop your pride and accept reality.

 

I am warning you in good faith,

Do not take my meekness for weakness

Don’t plant evil in me

I don’t want evil doing.

Stay away from irrationality and

take up responsibility.

Don’t take me for granted

For I don’t want to breed hatred

I don’t want to beat you and lose my dignity

Because I want to live with you for eternity.

 

I am giving you my tender warning this early,

So that no single value circumvents from you,

So that you can be a man by reality not title

So that you learn to respect humanity

I am warnig you my wonderless man,

So that you make good use of your brain,

I hope you have heard me you idiot!

 

Woman, where do you get this audacity,

What type of feet do you stand on

To preach all this gospel to a tradionalist?

When did you start teaching a dog how to bark?

A cock is a cock however short its legs could be

I will not have you educate me in this home,

Men don’t bend when urinating,

My friend, I don’t carry pregnancy

Shut up that mouth and bring for me food

Elders are waiting for me to commission

The drinking pot,

Don’t delay me here you woman

 

Tr. Emma Nabende chipukizi ~ The Arrogant poet

BLACK LINES POETRY

 

 

The Intended wife part 4

(Who is big?)

I have woken up earlier than you today

So, you can answer my questions

When you are still sober.

I don’t want you to think that I do

What I do because of what I carry in my calabash.

 

Yes, mistaken man,

What nonsense do you have this morning again?

What is wrong with you,

Were you born on the right side of the bed?

What woke you to disturb my last nap of sleep

This early morning?

 

Woman, do you realize you are talking

To a man who owns both you and this house?

Just yesterday you threw me out of my own house,

I want you to tell me this morning,

Who is big in this house?

 

Why are some men born too foolish?

To understand what they are?

Coming back to you,

Big as in irresponsibility and

Thankless like you or in what sense?

Listen to me you idiot!

The bigness of a man is not in the size

Or how much he spends on drinking and women

A man is a man when he

Manages his family accordingly

 

Woman, shut up that basket mouth before

I roar like a male lion,

Stop this moment lest I slap your mouth.

Sit down and let me teach

This dull head what a man is,

Do you expand a family line?

Do you inherit family property?

Do you build a house?

Do you pay dowry?

Do you impregnant a woman?

It is a man who does that.

Challenge my authority and I show you

What a man is made up of

You Primitive woman.

 

Try me this moment and

I define for you what fire is,

I will castrate you and leave you manless

I am going to force sense into your empty skull

And you will know

that a real man shares responsibility,

go and impregnant stones

and I see how you expand your family line

what a brain that went to school

and became more foolish than before.

Some men are just masculine proper nouns

That make up parts of speech.

 

The Intended wife part 5

      (Modest warning)

I stand on these my feet

To sound this warning to you

My good useless man,

If you think your position

In this home will allow you lead us badly

Then your dream is still premature

You better wake up from sleep.

 

My dear beloved African man,

I want you to know that we are equal

We are all human beings using blood,

You may be big but you can’t solve all challenges.

Will you breastfeed baby ZERO when I am gone?

My crude love, when I leave you,

You will no longer have a home but a house,

You will have no title,

So, stop your pride and accept reality.

 

I am warning you in good faith,

Do not take my meekness for weakness

Don’t plant evil in me

I don’t want evil doing.

Stay away from irrationality and

take up responsibility.

Don’t take me for granted

For I don’t want to breed hatred

I don’t want to beat you and lose my dignity

Because I want to live with you for eternity.

 

I am giving you my tender warning this early,

So that no single value circumvents from you,

So that you can be a man by reality not title

So that you learn to respect humanity

I am warnig you my wonderless man,

So that you make good use of your brain,

I hope you have heard me you idiot!

 

Woman, where do you get this audacity,

What type of feet do you stand on

To preach all this gospel to a tradionalist?

When did you start teaching a dog how to bark?

A cock is a cock however short its legs could be

I will not have you educate me in this home,

Men don’t bend when urinating,

My friend, I don’t carry pregnancy

Shut up that mouth and bring for me food

Elders are waiting for me to commission

The drinking pot,

Don’t delay me here you woman

 

Tr. Emma Nabende chipukizi ~ The Arrogant poet

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