Boy Meets God by Anele Sibanda
When all that he is
Is a perfect idea thought by Him,
A dream to a young woman of twenty-two,
And an unfathomable idea to a man of thirty,
They meet for the first time.
The boy does not know this just as yet.
Love creates him, the idea of him at first
But soon he’s a tiny bump on a once flat brown belly.
When he’s the size of a pea,
A dream come true and an idea taking form and shape,
The evidence of love,
A black and white image on
An ultrasound, finally in existence,
His kind of beauty is predetermined.
He’ll be a black child with
Dreamy brown eyes and he’ll be loved.
On week 10 when’s he’s the size of a lime fruit,
Love sets in motion the course of his life.
He’ll be a doctor
he’ll save the life of a little girl at twenty-nine,
She’ll be his first patient and he’ll love her mother
When he arrives on week thirty-nine, with a loud cry
The young mother’s sweat and tears bittersweet,
She holds him and her love sours.
This is when they meet again,
When the eyes of mother and boy meet
And there’s a melting of hearts
Still this meeting too is unbeknownst to the boy
Then Love begins to plan
Sets out the date of their first official date,
The boy will be seventeen
Having just lost his mother,
The young woman that bore
Him passage into the world gone from it
Questions will begin to arise,
Like “Why did it happen?”
And “Does God even exist?”
Soon enough he’ll find the answers.
So it happens this way
That on a sunny day,
Seventeen years later,
Boy meets God.
His grandmother will tell him
To say the words after her,
When all worldly hope is run out
With tears free flowing
from his dreamy brown eyes
He will say the words,
“I accept Jesus as my Lord and Saviour.”
And Boy meets God. Finally,
A love greater than any he’s ever felt.
This time there’s no missing it.