Like A Chef About To Cook Poem by Emmanuel Arunee Mwanza

Like a chef about to cook
My recipes I get
Looking at the list… planning I do
How do I make this delicious?
Asks a chef …and so I ask, " how do I make this life so real,
Like a chef about to cook? '

The ingredients are all there
Still the chef doesn't just start anyhow
He takes his time and so do I
I know I got everything to build a life
I know girls are many but I still take my time
Just like the chef about to cook

Like the chef I got an insight…
What I want out of life I vision
How to do it I plan
Still I wouldn't rush…like a chef
If I rush, I know the result will be a half-baked success
Not fully grown relationships
So like the chef about to cook, I take my time

Adding the ingredients the chef does
Am sure, he does that with full knowledge and so sure
And like him after my proper look,
Charm and sweetness to love I will add
After my planning
Effort and hard work to my studies/work I will add
As sure as the chef when he cooks so I am
Then patiently...
I...
... wait

It may be hard to wait
But just look at how patient and expectant the chef is
And the same I will do,
Waiting for the fruits of my work;
Smiling, the chef does, while he looks at the clock
It is another job well done
And just like him….
I am sure my work is a success

An aroma has filled the air
Look, everybody look!
It's the chef carrying delicious meal
Indeed he has done a fine job
And because I too, took my time
I will expect a good job
Success songs will play
A joyful time, laughter and smiles are the results

I have done myself a favor
A beautiful wife I got…
Full of respect, love and kindness
Godly she is…
On the other end I got my degree
And I have a good job,
prospering business
It's all success

Happy are the faces of those eating too
Enjoying the delicious meal
And happy are your co-workers too
Happy are those you have helped
And like, for the chef's good job
Jokes click;
'that the chef got magic hands…' so, they say
Similarly…'thanks to him', goes,
people appreciating your work
Well done is the story being shared

And there goes the chef
Seeing the smiles on the people's faces
He tells himself …." Well done"
Like him I go like…."well done"
patting myself on the back
Like the chef
You have done yourself a good job and so too to others
Take your time like a chef about to cook