'Debisi' by Tolu Akinyemi

Debisi married a beast she calls her man

Her man who pounds her like a sandbag

He tans her face with heavy kicks

Smoothens her skin with slender sticks

Shameless man

Flexing muscles on his wife

His disgrace came

When robbers came

Trading his money

For generous pummelling

Yet wife beater couldn't bite

Wimpy man, cried like a child

That day no doubt he met his match

I swear I heard his woeful bleats

Two streets away from where i live

If it had been poor debisi

Puffing and huffing he wouldhave

Like Matthew Murray's locomotive

When day broke we saw his face

Swollen like a leather ball

But funny what we do for love

It still was Debisi we saw

Gently massaging the fool

With a tender steamy sponge.

This week’s poem was published with the permission of Tolu Akinyemi. 'Debisi' is one of the poems published in the author's debut poetry book 'Your Father Walks like a Crab', the first volume in the poetry for people who hate poetry series.

READ: 'Your Father Walks Like a Crab' by Tolu Akinyemi