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 </div><p></p><figure id="attachment_2136" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2136" style="width: 349px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=2136#main" rel="attachment wp-att-2136"><img class=" wp-image-2136 " alt="That Bastard" src="http://poetry.wrr.ng/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/that-bastard.jpg?w=300" height="239" width="349" loading="lazy"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2136" class="wp-caption-text">www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry <strong>[That Bastard]</strong></figcaption></figure>With grace and youthful bounce, he walks my way<br>
Teeth sparkling white, eyes twinkling<br>
This man is so charming!<br>
I blush with virginal grace; his eyes devour my shape<br>
I see raw desire and hide my face<br>
For the first time I’m conscious at the state of my dress<br>
My favorite dress<br>
My young flourishing curves his eyes caress<br>
But he does not reach and touch; as I expect<br>
Instead he takes –<br>
My hands away from my face<br>
Shows me a pool of water – I see me!<br>
Gods! And this one is small and fits in my small fist<br>
Can he tell my heart is already his?
<p>I want to be beautiful for him<br>
He calls me his Nubian queen<br>
And gives me things that belong to a king<br>
His cultured baritone takes away all my reason</p>
<p>I just want to please him<br>
So I lay on my back, welcome his weight, part my thighs<br>
And give him my heart, my jewel, my life<br>
He takes me over completely; is it hypnosis?<br>
Or ignorance or virginal innocence<br>
No matter; he changes my rags to real clothes<br>
Takes me from my parents’ mud hut into a real home<br>
They complain; but I do not listen<br>
More shiny things, toys that speak called mobile phones<br>
I learn his language; mine is no longer acceptable<br>
Shows me not to eat on the floor; he says ‘bring it the table’<br>
Tells me to raise my head in the presence of men<br>
Except him; he owns me then</p>
<p>I just want to please him<br>
And I speak like him; I’m so cultured<br>
What does a little rudeness to my parents matter?<br>
They are stuck in the past; this man is the future<br>
I am happy; I think, and I laugh fake laughter<br>
Slowly, ever so slowly, everything begins to shatter<br>
The clothes he gave me he takes back; replaces with rags<br>
Says my nudity is perfect<br>
But the strings and ropes he makes me wear now are plastic<br>
The sex is much more violent and graphic<br>
A camera’s always in the room<br>
Videos; for an uncle named YouTube<br>
I wear hair that does not belong to me;</p>
<p>And I just want to please him<br>
So I learn new things; styles, so I can tease him<br>
Please him; because he stays away; more and more<br>
Says my breasts are flat, I make them firmer<br>
My thighs are too fat; i make them thinner<br>
‘Your native songs are old!’ he screams. ‘Play something newer!’<br>
We eat food with funny names out of nylons and paper<br>
They taste very sweet; but I now am fatter<br>
I see myself in the mirror; I do not know me anymore!<br>
He used to be worth it; but now it’s just harder<br>
And he’s stopped calling me his queen; that makes me so sad<br>
Names like bitch! Ho! Silly hooker thrown all over the place<br>
And when I complain; he laughs and says ‘It’s what you deserve.’<br>
Isn’t that you in the video, dancing nude with no reserves?’</p>
<p>And I tried to please him<br>
It took me all over the world; from the little room in<br>
Which we used to be intimate;<br>
Shared me with the world through the internet<br>
Now I cover my face in real shame<br>
Shedding late tears over lost innocence<br>
I go back home; but it’s not home anymore<br>
It was not me he wanted; it was what my people had<br>
Giving them whisky in return for their land<br>
Making them drunk; stupid and envious of each other<br>
Now they have carts that move with no one pulling them<br>
Stereo systems that allow me no rest<br>
The noise is so scary!<br>
What happened to the beautiful silence?<br>
When I complain or talk, they thank me for all I sacrificed,<br>
The beauty of machines and material wealth in exchange for a human mind<br>
It’s all my fault…no, I was a victim</p>
<p>A victim of that manipulating bastard called CIVILIZATION</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">Written by: <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/SeunGQodukoya">Seun Odukoya</a></strong><br>
Edited by: Kukogho Iruesiri Samson</p>
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