Let them speak
To do it like the mothers before
As if you once lived in the time past
To stay for your children
Forgetting you are all flesh,
To do it like the men before
As if you once lived in the time past
To stay like the head you are
They know not the woman better than you ,
To tie closely around the hands the leaf of stay put always
When everything is taking left turns
Silenced with everything that breathes not
They know not the burns it’s leaving us with.
Impatience trampled heavily on her
With little effort, making a thrall out of her
The days jabbered incessantly
Mocking the veil that is now long
Relishing their time together
When her lips would pout then
Of her sunrise, it speaks
Her skin were no match for flakes
For it thrived with her beautifully
The sunrays rejoiced in her glory
Gracing her with golden skin prompts
Her father’s house tell tales of conjugal bliss
Tonguesters blabbing the visits of no male
Like they would thread the strong hand of metals
From the Creator as though our father
They spoke of sunsets to make her skin crawl
They mock the veil that is now long
Like on the cliff’s edge she stands
To knot now or never
Were the Creator’s timing a see through
Her confident demeanor would have persuaded others.
She would find true love…at the right time, with the right person.
ADENIKE ADEKOYA 