CHILD OF NO-MOTHER

I’m a child who dislikes affection

Who alike a lone leopard

Is untamable

I’m the naïve gazelle

Who strays from his herd
Into the cannibal wild

I’m the lamb that prefers

To suckle not from its mother’s tits

But would rather sip from a caring farmer’s drip

I’m one who searched

Vast hills and deep valleys

Amongst Christians, Muslims, atheists, Buddhists ….

Searched till I found

A million reasons not to search anymore

Searched for the keys to my home

While they were right inside humanity’s soul

Searched till I realized

I’m a child of no-mother

Coz n in your inhuman pre-occupation

You believe

Children belong to none other

Than the womb that bore them.

I’m a child of no-mother

Coz you all have forgotten

Mark 10:14

Let the children come to me….

I’m a child of no-mother

Coz you’ve forgotten Mose, Easter..

From your last Sunday summon.

I’m a child of no-mother

Coz you’ve chosen

To offer love selectively

As it suits your ungodliness
I’m a child of no-mother
Coz you are still a slave
Of your backward customs 

I’m a child of no-mother

Coz you’ve abdicated your duty

To be my fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters…

Family…………

I’m a child of no-mother

Who later found his no-mother

To whom he was all that mattered

I’m whom children of mothers evaded

Like a leaper

Whom their mothers

Had warned them about

One from the no-mothers tree

That bore no fruits

A harvest from a foreign garden.

I’m one who had no relatives

I was the uninvited guest

In a family feast

So I was fed on crumbs

After toiling like a beast

As children of mothers

Cheered me on.

But by the grace

I’m no longer a child of no-mother

But a child of no.1 mother

Who has turned out

To be the best mother

You all refused to be

I’m no child of no mother

I’m not an orphan as you presume

I’m just among the blessed few

Who had the privilege of dual parenthood

I’m not an abandoned child as you may think

I’m the cog without which

Marital bliss would not flourish

I’m the bud from which

A family lineage emerges

I’m the joy and laughter in kraals

Suffocating in the stigma

Of childlessness

I’m the living proof

Of the existence of  humanity that's selfless

I’m not an outcast

I’m just a hero in waiting

The future Nobel Laurette

The future miss world

I’m tomorrow’s hope

For the millions of children of no-mothers.