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 </div><p></p>Mother said you went on a journey,<br>
A journey to a far country,<br>
With promise to bring me strawberry,<br>
But I made request for a blackberry,<br>
Because I intend to start browsing,<br>
Now I have to wait all morning,<br>
Just to see you when you will be home coming.
<p>Today Emeka is my half brother,<br>
Because you went to marry across the border,<br>
Not minding if our mother will bother,<br>
Or us wonder if you still love her,<br>
But you believe you are a dictator,<br>
And so what ever your desire,<br>
Must be our compliance.</p>
<p>Now you are old and retired,<br>
And our mothers are living as the tyrants,<br>
But Emeka and I are more familiar,<br>
Not because we are known as brothers,<br>
But because we choose not to bother,<br>
And today we live as the brothers,<br>
From two different mothers.</p>
<p>Emeka is now a wine tapper,<br>
As my belly is now his wine store house.<br>
Mama Chioma pays for every wine supplied,<br>
While my money gave me every wine consumed,<br>
Emeka is now a house owner,<br>
Mama Chioma and I are his store keeper,<br>
And now the life we have laugh at us,<br>
Because we choose to be dumb all along.</p>
<p>It was in Mama Chioma’s bar I met her,<br>
I went to take my local drink as usual,<br>
And the (palm)wine I drank beautified her,<br>
Now I am hooked up to her forever.</p>
<p>I am married to a lady who is a stranger to my past,<br>
And my home has become a strange land,<br>
But I choose to live in a safe land,<br>
Which I have found in mama chioma’s drinking bar,<br>
Her cup of wine is now my sweetheart,<br>
I pray I see father on my way tomorrow,<br>
Because this journey he started yesterday is now a shipwreck,<br>
And my future is now in distress.</p>
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