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 </div><p></p><figure id="attachment_10052" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10052" style="width: 469px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/a-mothers-lament.png"><img class=" wp-image-10052 " alt="A Mother's Lament" src="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/a-mothers-lament.png" width="469" height="357" loading="lazy"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-10052" class="wp-caption-text">www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry <strong>[A Mother’s Lament]</strong></figcaption></figure>My wilted breast did suckle you<br>
Your haven was my broken back<br>
Toiled day and night to comfort you<br>
With you strapped tightly to my back
<p>Trained you in the ways of the Lord<br>
Daily drawing you close to God<br>
Trained you to be a real woman<br>
To sell conscience and self to none</p>
<p>How come you choose to dine with pigs<br>
Dressed in skimpies and coloured wigs<br>
Selling to Dick, Tom and Harry<br>
Robbing me of my earned glory<!--more--></p>
<p>I talk no more amidst my peers<br>
I cringe at words that hit my ears<br>
You’ve stripped me bare under the sun<br>
On a strange patch, nowhere to run.</p>
<p>You’ve painted black your father’s name<br>
My rested womb is locked in shame<br>
I’ve got no strength to take my life<br>
I would have sought peace in a knife.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Written by: Alozor Michael Ikechukwu</em><br>
<em>Edited by: Kukogho Iruesiri Samson</em></p>
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