The crush sighted
Unnerving, confusing
A lot like roast meat—
Lovely, tasty
Yet risky.
The girlfriend embraced
Exhilarating, exciting—
A lot like table salt
The presence subtly appreciated
The absence loudly queried.
The fiancé ringed
Precipitating anxiety
Curiosity, jealousy—
A lot like a beard fresh
Too long in the coming.
The wife wedded
Comforting, reassuring—
A lot like shoes shiny
Shielding from harm
Whilst boosting confidence.
The ex-wife
Irritating, infuriating
In need of urgent discarding—
A lot like chewing gum
Once the taste’s gone.
Ben Murigu is versatile gay creative from Nairobi-Kenya who, while teaching high school English, has scripted numerous highly-acclaimed commercial plays, self-published a fiction novel, Toy Soldiers, and, quite recently, gotten his works into Literary Cocktail Magazine, Worthing Flash, Bright Flash Literary Review, Lit eZine, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Fairy Charter, 50 Give or Take, Dear Booze & Yours2Read.
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