Parents To Child Poem by Tosin Adesokan

MOTHER
my life is full of happiness without an iota of joy
my world is full of sorrow without sadness
My life is like a flood running around, strolling with erosion
Useless as rain falling, shedding tears like rain without water
In my palace, we welcome a baby with just at dusk
Overnight, voiceless will be screaming, our mouth will
be rinsed with tears:
I order for death but getting it is cumbersome
I set to blow the wing up and quenched the unquestionable lights
And he came,
Silence follows
Then the story changes

FATHER

I grew in a house built with glittering gold
I knew sorrow once when I was birthed
Although I beggedfor another but it never came
Slandering Principal, I still get away unharmed
Money flows in my room and never look back
In our house, we buy money with money and rename it
I know sorry although I asked for several but it never came
He promised me heaven on Earth
I buy,
I lost,
I order and give other to people to people to murder
I am power, as he told me then.
Then he left,
Silence follows
And I met her
Then the story changes


CHILD
Mother, your story is believable
Father, your ways are amendable
Not to be like you comfortable
I will be a coin,toss off and land with none of its side
I will be a mirror, reflecting myself
I don't want to be son of my father
I need not memories of my mother
I am not a vase to be filled but fire to be lit.