Indispensable Poem by Niki Nicholas Nkuna

Men, muscular, indispensable and veil over the precious feminine
The world manned to what it is today
Not only for men to live in but for all things alive, dead, beautiful and ugly
Men in quest for domination over all living things in the world
Grew a muscle to break stones and things into shape,
Just to erect a beautiful sanctuary for a woman

Men dared all threatening creatures by valour reminiscent to a heart of a lion
Just to pamper and protect the feminine
That’s why women love men for what they are
Just men, who possess all that only they can provide
The soothing things like a well in a desert
Women like the comfort of knowing men’s visible and invisible presence beneath and above
For they cannot live without men in a day, a week, a month or a year
Because the moment they see the muscle and jaw they feel the excitement of the cool flow of blood in the spine
However, they never democratise the truth, except in the clandestine women affairs

Women often do what they do with dead hands
Their attentive minds roaming on the other side of town
Men loose none of it in the presence of women;
The attentiveness side frightens the like muscle and heart
Thus they rule the little fiefdoms and the vast of the world
Thus they possess the might of built and destroy
Thus they can unleash all hell or hue with a might geared to placate the feminine
Thus at times the feminine are allowed to possess the light to ignite men’s fury
Just because men crave to touch, play and deflate the balloon

Men grew lion’s heart to roar the predators away from encroachment of the kraal
This arouses the want of engagement with the opposite sex
Thus the presence of men on sight or off sight is relished by women
Because men’s dominance is present like the fumes after a war
Forever warning that the war may not have ended

For men to see women naked in the day or night
No need for women to undress, their bodies are forever in the men’s mind
Thus women deceive themselves that they have a string attached to the mind of a man
Which only they can pull in times of need or deceit
Men’s mind has already traced the point of departure and the destination of engagement

No wonder men are beautiful to a point of ignorance of the suffering of a woman’s heart
No wonder men may kill a woman short and long with the exertion of a muscle and pleasure
Which they may know of it like toying with a toy
Or which they may not know of it and thus cause the secret strain to stray out of control
Often the smitten woman will be present in body perfume albeit with a muzzled mind

Men has the key to open and exercise the muscle of start and drive
Albeit women crooked their way in and out of the secret garden
Where do they find the key?
From men themselves because men love them soft, strong and smitten

N Nkuna,13 October 2-13