POEMS WITH RUKENNY

TO LOSE A CHILD

Maami,

You never told me

Life would toss me this way

Back and forth

Round and round

To this day,

When my heart will bleed

Nurturing the death of my seed

I never knew

This pain will feel so true.

You never prepared me

For this pain.

Omo mi,

You died with a part of me

A deep scar you dug in me

One that will forever be.

My nipples longed

For your soothing suck

But its hope ran out of luck.

My arms yearned

To daily cuddle you

But its desire weeps too.

I never envisaged

To lose you.

No one shared in it

The painful delicacy life served me to eat

Is that how sweet pain can be?

I enjoyed it all by myself!

Savoring its taste,

It traveled through my veins

And formed a river.

An endless flow down my eyes

That I swam in it.

It was the only memory I had of you.

A story I'll never stop telling

Is how you had made me a mother!

©®RUKENNY

Esther Kalu Ndidi also known as Rukenny is budding poet, short story writer, content writer, freelance writer and journalist who explores her love for writing with the scribbles from her heart, with the aim of impacting positive change. She is a student of Mass Communication in Yaba College of Technology, Lagos