My Bundle Of Joy Poem by Victor Okechukwu Anyaegbuna

I flew like an eagle in the air
And landed on his chest.
His tongue reeled out promises
Of our El Dorado,
And dreams of our Eden forever.

He reveled in my most sensitive parts
And was ravished with my boundless love;
He placed a gene in my egg,
My flowers vanished, and stirred the wind;
Pulled the garb off his love
And exposed lust crutched in a corner,
Most ugly, wretched, and lonely.
His lovely romantic face
All of a sudden became a monster’s image.
His sugar-mouth and sweet counsel
Suddenly became a lion’s roar.

I got the pregnancy of my life,
without a husband.
My fantasy crashed!
He dumped me without relish.
My love loved no more
because I bore his genes in my womb.

My thoughts staggered like a colossus,
I became an object of shame.
Ridicule became my second name;
I watched my life like a movie,
Straggling in the abyss of suicide;
Nay, murder of the unborn
in my womb gave me hope again.
But, I dared not.

My strength zoomed in from the wild.
My vision dropped from the high heavens,
as I moped helplessly into the skies,
trailing the grey clouds aimlessly.
I became an object of derision;
I snarled through humiliation,
And had you, my true love,
open my matrix,
As a single mother.

Today, you are three years old;
I dearly celebrate you,
And you are my bundle of joy.

JUNE 25,2010
AMUWO-ODOFIN GRA, LAGOS.