Am A Third World Boyfriend. Poem by Bamukunda Hillary

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Hello crush
Here stands your dream husband
A replica of a developing sub-saharan African country
I don't ask for favors though
I don't need any sympathies too
But patience to move with me in the shrubs
And perseverance to await our canan.
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Like Uganda, I have vision 2040
Like Kenya, I peer at a revolutionalised river road
And like Nigeria, am heading to a free bufere generation
Don't talk about Ghana, am pretending better.
My nepotic and corrupt tendencies shall be meant to benefit you alone
And there will be no chance of failure
Our fortunes will be lying on the shores of R. Zambezi or Limpopo falls
So choose and be a good citizen of the yearning heart.
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Dear crush,
My love knows not of Zimbabwe's load shedding
I Will traverse across your feelings regardless of mwanza roadblocks.
Where it rains heavily on you my darling,
At least the government will be responsible
And I will sue it for amending the weather constitution
Or else turn to a river lake nilotic rain makers,
Or the modernised witchdoctors, I mean these modernized prophetic pastors who speak in tongues at the sight of dollars and fallen boobs.
Your life should be what Jesus missed when he was crucified.
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Dear crush,
I just seek a life co-joiningproject.
This needs not the Chinese investors
Neither does it need the social media in-laws
This needs us against the world
This needs more than us
May be our souls preservedin kasubi tombs
For the whole world to witness for centuries to come
That we were once together in a fix
In a selfless, non struggling togetherness.
And our flag shall move nations
Of the perfection and love that lived not oncebut even after we perished.
For all is well that ends well.
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