Pregnancy truths: From morning sickness to relationship paranoia, what to expect when you’re expecting

Testing positive for pregnancy is the greatest feeling ever if you are expecting to be a mother.

The joy of motherhood drives same sex couples to adopt day old babies due to the significant roles children play in our lives.

No doubt the world pays much reverence to women during mother’s day celebration.

BEFORE I DIE

Such a relief!

Prison is hell, unbearable and a crawling animal is more useful and has liberty.

I was behind bars and entangled in this world’s tabernacles  

Oh my God, I have wasted my youthful days

Oh my poor soul, what have I done to you.

I was blessed with wisdom but instead I effortlessly used it for earthly things.

I was such a fool I could have used my house as a place for believers to worship God instead of organizing events for people to engage in immoral acts.

Blessed is the man that mediates on the laws of God day and night, hmm my day and night was used for shopping, searching every needle hole for the latest fashion trends to take pictures.

MISSING YOU

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At twilight, we sneaked

When it rained, we run haphazardly and hopefully in the mud and dumped ourselves in the Onaa River

My breasts stood firm as I walked majestically placing my feet on the rock with both fingers covering pelvic and pubic

He covered my body with plantain branches, offered me coconut juice he stored in the craves and grilled grass cutter thighs

THE MASKED MAN

He talks like a parrot, very eloquent and pleasing to the ears like the sound of a flute but very deceiving like the weather and a package of lies.

His words are twisting and brainy like playing chess, optimistic and convincing like the future.

Just like a dog, he throws up and licks it. Look at him and analyse his promises, as dry and empty as an abandoned dessert.

He smells your vulnerability, bites and sucks it like a vampire leaving you to die. Interestingly he ambitiously tricks you to deport your family.

Just like a lizard excretes black and white feces, consider him as the magic man: everything he gives has a price.

ABOUT LAST NIGHT

My hands were tied in chains coiled around a pillar

My left eye was gushed out; dark thick red blood flowed like honey

My right, however, managed to cry real tears,

I was completely naked; the guard was titillated, went for an abandoned stool and sat right in front of me.

He stared directly into my eyes for some minutes….

He held my nipples and twisted them as though he were casting a dice.

And gradually grabbed my tits, as is he was receiving a Grammy.

MY ASHANTI QUEEN

I have seen your smile;
Your lips veined in a crescent
And your gaze, a twinkle 
Fixing me benumb

My Ashanti Queen
Under your spell I wait
As you weld my heart,
Fusing my hub
To your heart of gold

As you induct me
Upon manifold tales of your glance:
Forlorn and torn
Mournful and lorn

IN A MINUTE

The phone rang and my heart beats increased

The once cheerful voice I loved to listened everyday stammered

The thoughts were crumbled, entangled and I shivered

The soulless shadow moved fast, bidding good bye, re echoing over and over to my troubled ears

The wind whirled when I peeped through the windows

Holding the handset, I gasped; fear and sorrow embraced me as if at the sight of a roaring lion

Sweat gradually dripping to my feet.

REDEMPTION

Where did you come from?

Life unexpected journey made me vulnerable

Victim of bully, child labour, peer pressure and prey to men and women

Drugs and alcohol was my best allies to forget my plight after hovering my body on the scorching sun to make ends meets.

Sleep is for relaxation but night time is meant for learning

Eradication of poverty through hard work was accompanied by frequent suspension and dismissal

Ties were loose, no friends for the poor and the gentle voice was lost

STEP UP

They turn, sigh and deliberately comment, “Why are you still living’’?

You belong to the monster’s fraternity, you are a disgrace.

They cast you adrift; keep you in the pin-hole camera.

Our decision is final, who cares what you think.

Don’t let their words and actions berate you.

Self pity, anger and hatred churn on your personality

You clench your teeth so hard to shatter them

Twiddling your thumb waiting for liberation

You wear your situation as corsage; they feed on your weakness.

Don’t let them wipe your existence

Just let it go, embrace yourself as tree planted near a river

Every situation is a test to empower you for the next step

Success is a mixture of preparation and luck

Never scratch the surface of life, delve into it

Make them bite their nails at your success as if you are running in an Olympics relay final

Live your life as an exemplary life worthy of emulation. 

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