Entry 4 #Dearfuturehusband by Ehi Oduh

#Dearfuturehusband

Dear Future Husband, I’ve been waiting…

Thanks for taking your own sweet time

It has made me all the better prepared for you

I’ve learned to be my own woman in that time

Not waiting to find my identity in a man

But finding ways I can add to a man

Waiting for you makes me believe everything good comes, eventually!

Dear Future Husband, I’m a go-getter…

You’ll do well not to forget that and expect me to sit at home

And wait on you, hand and foot

I’ll have a life outside of home

You’ll be required to appreciate that and not bitch about it

But pull your weight in raising our kids and in the house chores, too

You should be secure enough in your masculinity to allow me pursue my dreams

And be the wind beneath my wings, not the spit in my face!

Dear Future Husband, I’m your lover…

You are beholden to me

Our vows will you honour with your life’s breath

You’ll probably be smothered by all the love and devotion I’ll lavish in return

It’s coming from a reserve that’s been untapped for years

So expect a burst dam when I turn it on

But like my maker before me, I’m the Janus-faced paradox of love and jealousy

Should my love be taken for granted

I turn arch-nemesis – extremes, that’s my thing!

                                                                                    Yours till the end.