A Husband Poem by Sammy Aswani Luyove

I was writing a new dictionary
Of words people never understand
I wrote word by word, up the alphabet,
Then the animal they call 'husband'
Was I to define, as a man that:
When he has an ache in the head,
You take aspirins in his stead;
When the village calls him mad
You strip naked
And storm the market in his stead
And leave him at home chained;
When he has his nose running close,
You blow and wipe your own nose
And deep your feet in cold water,
To freeze his fever.