THE SORROWFUL HEART OF A DARLING MOTHER
She brushed
hurriedly past me
I stopped to
look at her
As her feet
pounded heavily upon the stony ground
With the
helm of her old faded wrapper in her hands
She was
sobbing so bitterly
I ran after
her and I wondered what made her cry
And the pain
she felt inside her
She reached
the Abrika Bridge and stopped
She wanted
to jump
“Stop!” I
yelled at her
She made an abrupt halt and turned to face me
I was taken aback by her beauty
Her face was such an innocent one to behold
Her tears flowed down her rosy cheeks
And it revealed a long years of sorrow
Filled with great grief in her heart
She fell down and cried more bitter tears
“Onoye has taken away the only one that gave me joy.
My beautiful baby, brutally killed by my husband’s wife”.
She said
amid her tears
At that
moment, I felt her pain
I walked
slowly to her and touched her
Her hands
trembled
And her
voice quivered like a tremor
I reached
out to her and I held those hands in mine
I lifted her
up and she cried on my shoulders
I was
troubled within me and I wondered,
So great a
love a mother has for her child
That she
chose to die with her baby
Thank God I
saved a life
But from
that day I had loved my mother
Because like
Eni she chose to live for me.
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