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I'm Looking For A Friend

by Shehu Abubakar Niasse

I'm looking for a friend I can hold hands with Bond and connect without bandwidth A beautiful reminder, stern warner And one with whom I feel warmer. I'm looking for a sweetheart I can call my own, Who wherever she is I call my home. A bringer of roses, hibiscuses, and bliss, A harbinger of victory, and from my home, a banisher of Iblis. One in whose honor I bask— she bears it like a basket of splendor My pains soothed away by her serenading voice of a trained tenor A Khadija-n who smolders me & calms my heart tremor.
Shehu Abubakar Niasse is the pen name of Shehu Abubakar Mann, also known as Abubakar Shehu, a poet from Ilorin, Nigeria. First published at PoemHunter.