The Poet
Nura Yusuf Abubakar is currently studying Guidance and Counseling at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). He has worked with Inspire Paradigm Academy in Yola, as has served as co-ordinator for the Guided Reading Program". He was also the co-ordinator of Visual Arts for nine years. Yusuf is now a full time freelance contemporary visual artist. His primary expertise includes Digital illustration, concept arts, product design and oil/acrylic canvas paintings.
The Poem
IMPRESSION OF LOVE
OH!! I am so lonely in here
Talking to myself with a voice not clear
I am Waiting! Waiting I totally hate to bear
For a voice or sight of my LOVE to appear
Like petals of an orchid on a windowsill
Waiting for first light of the sun
My GOD!! My love, I love you so much
That your absence gets my senses lost
So many things I cannot do right
Like a blind person who lost his guide
In a deserted road he knows not much
Your presence makes everything alive
A pair of twinkle eyes and a brain so bright
A fair of smooth skin and hair so black
Perfect face, a treasure sight to behold
I detest blinking when looking at your smiling face
The face I long to draw with a special silver pen
Ha! I’ll be
both Leonardo and Michelangelo moulded into one
Super portrait I’ll make with a Midas touch
To dazzle your heart that loves art so much
(Smiles…)
Stamped in your heart I’ll be, a place where I long to be
Come back my dear, Home is where you ought to be.
©Nuraddeen Yusuf Abubakar (Designer)
Yola, Adamawa State
Nigeria
The Story
It was about a realisation of how much I love my wife, and how little I appreciate her effort of keeping me and my house comfortable.
This important phase happened when she travelled to Kano (we were living in Adamawa at the time) for some wedding ceremony of her sibling and a niece, I terribly struggled hard to do simple chores correctly, things that she did so swiftly.
I so much missed her presence to the extent that it affected not only my homely life but also my work.
It was a turning point in my life, because from that experience, things changed from my side, forever.
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