Style and Rhythm: The One

I wonder if there is just one right person for somebody.

It’s quite a funny feeling

But the idea of ‘till death do us part’

Is quite scary and boring to me.

I will prefer

The love lust to go on

The romance to be enduring

The love to be exciting.

But, nothing lasts forever.

Maybe that’s why people go into marriage.

To hold onto the reason of their existence.

But even still,

Marriage isn’t perfect.

It is, for sure

The next best thing.

I am not certain

If I will find the one.

I have been looking for since Jupiter

And I haven’t found one yet.

We cannot point out the one.

The one to be with forever more.

I can only say:

The one will start off as a stranger

And we can only wait for fate to do the rest.

We can only wait and believe, dream and lust.

Most of all, be ourselves.

Adaudo Anyiam-Osigwe from her book of poems Words from Beyond when Crying for Myself: Musings of Childhood