🔁 NNOLI SYLVESTER CHIKELUE ReCircled: Edit Post

NNOLI SYLVESTER CHIKELUE
@sylvesternnoli140312
10 months ago

BIRTHDAY BLESSING BECOMES BITTER

At a dew point, it drizzles down deep on my roof.

Gradually thunder strikes

And lightning flashes in my hood

Then the barmy rain comes along

And shouts of joy is on a loop


Mother is no exception

Yes!Her voice roars like that of a lion

So long and loud, dashing out through the windows

He is seven!

She shouts louder and louder

Consoling me that my birthday has brought showers of blessings


Mother is like a busy bee

Filling all the household containers one after the other

How can showers of blessing become bitter?


The old thatched roof has become so porous

Crying out so loud and pouring down tears from every part of her cheek

Such becomes the drop that keeps mother so busy in the dark

And suddenly, it spreads all through the floor

And as a curse in disguise, it displace objects around our home

From the outer sitting room to the inner hurt

And as the roof cries down tears from her eyes

Mother did the same too

Tears pouring down her cheek like the waterfalls


And each time i stood to look into her eyes

She conceals her face

Gives me her back with a birthday song

Poor widow in a doom

Is she really enjoying this?


I cannot help but join, knowing that history has given me this role to play

Then in the course, no one knows how the light of the day,

Pierces through the dark of the night

And at my waist stage, our entire home turns a pool


And even when I'm not crying
Tears start flowing down my cheek too

It was at this stage that mother cries out loud, asking God why?

As she lifts me up high and heads for a run.


#poetry #hellonircle #nirclestory #InMyHood
#CirlceofLights #DayintheLife
#motherhood

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