By
Noel Ihebuzor
In Baba’s house are many rooms
Kitchen, bedrooms, sitting room and
no room for doubt since Baba said so
each room with clear functions
with defined assignees…..
all who enter know the rules and their roles
though some daintily feign ignorance
room access is defined by gender
walls though thin are not permeable,
partitions incapable of shatter
room for roaming arguments
for roaming hands rejoicing
at successful negotiation and fresh possession
room for seasoning, for sliced rumps,
for tenderizing thighs and breasts
room for romps
No room for reasoning, these
function rooms with known functions
mixing or ignoring functions amounts to treason
In Baba’s house,
there are rooms for men only,
women only rooms
and unisex rooms for celebrating new acquisitions
strategic additions
we and all must respect….
rooms for duty bearers and service providers,
rooms for husbands, rights holders,
where lambs yield passage,
sob and go, broken,
rapture almost for one,
rupture for the other
All appears well
for and between two bodies,
strangers in one room,
on one bed
Almost, except that after exchange 1
hungers now elongate in one,
fatigue grows in the other,
meal share now a fatigue
for the first meals in this room
(shearing for one,
cheering for the other)
are not cooked
in the kitchen but
in this same room, the other room
the leveler room
Reflections 