My Princess Poem by Raimi Babatunde

My Princess

Behind those smiles
A beautifully chiselled gap tooth
With a Statuesque persona
Is a Royal goddess
They call her Princess
I call her Uvbi

The Iroko stands tall
Serenading the forest
With melodious vibes
As the wind approaches
Just like Uvbi

Her appearance exudes grace
Can a Lioness pass unnoticed?
So is this pretty Damsel
From the ancient city of Benin
You cannot but stop and ponder

With an infectious aura
She is a Lioness at heart
A lioness that bows to no one
With eyes fixated on the prize
For which she always pays the price

Again, today, but officially
I met beauty and brains
It felt like a meet with a Principality
An Engineering Principality
Set to blaze the trail as a reformer

For a moment i gazed
Through those perfect dentition
At God's perfect creation
Carved out for exploits
From the womb of a virtous woman

The next time you walk through the aisle
Welcomed by the voice of our Lecturers
Know that i will sitting by you
Even when i am not sitting by you
With a big smile on my face

To everything there is an end
As i reluctantly drop my ink
With pens of gold and points of silver
All i can but ask is that you forget me not
By remembering me on your kingdom
When duty calls, when royalty beckons.