The village Girl
By Matiop Alier
I think my cousins were correct after all,
What I need is a woman I love, a girl from my people.
A wife is all I need out of this turbulent world.
A woman whom we can look after each other,
A charismatic woman, who can keep me at home,
A daughter of a good man, who can save money for me,
A woman, who’ll bear me children,
A rudimentary woman who can make,
A respectable person in society out of me,
A woman, who‘ll have a great stabilizing influence on me.
So, help me, Lord!
Not many married people would lose their jobs after all,
Not many married people would do the stupid things,
Not many married people would go to clubs these days.
A marriage gives a man some kind of extra wisdom,
A better way of judgment,
A more rational approach to human problems.
So, help me, Lord
I know the kind of girl I want,
But I don’t know where to find her from.
I want a woman, who’ll listen to me.
A woman, who’ll rise— to my ambitious way of thinking.
A woman, who doesn’t know many personalities.
A woman, whose clothes are not that short,
A woman, who doesn’t fill her tummy with beers—any time of the day.
So, help me, Lord!
After all, those modern girls would get married one day,
But be sure I’ll not be there.
Not me.
I ‘m too tough,
Too arrogant,
Too selfish,
And too devoted to my own ideas.
On the contrary,
These modern girls want a boy they can control like a hosepipe,
A boy they can bend like their belts, an easy target,
A boy who would do what they want.
I want a woman, who’ll rid me,
Of my buffoonery and flirtatiousness once and for all.
So, help me, Lord!
After all, I need a village girl,
‘I couldn’t care less for modern civilization.
’I won’t mind getting married to a village girl,
A woman of Eve’s generation,
As long as she wears more than a leaf of tree in public,
I want a village girl,
Because she’s all this and more.
After all, what I need is a woman I love,
A woman who can bear me children,
Look after the family,
A daughter of my Dinka tribe, a sister from my people!
And this is the only girl I feel I can get married to.
So, help me, Lord!
Place: Juba (Custom), South Sudan.
~Metabolic@2014
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