BEAUTIFUL TEARS
1. For years you got ensnared
In an illness unfathomed
Incomprehensible!
Unfathomable!
Depressible
Pitiable
Uncontrollable
Undesirable.
2. It sucked your whole being,
And turned you into a vegetable,
You became fragile
No longer agile,
You were taken to almost all Nigerian hospitals
Prayers were offered
Yet the illness lingered.
For like 12 years,
It were all tears.
3. Hmmmm! what a life of shadows!
Today we are here, tomorrow no more,
What a short life!
Full of troubles and restlessness!
What a life!
Life of miseries
A life where the good ones don't last
While bad ones hold on fast.
4. Mother!
You fought hard
It was so sad
Seeing you struggling
And couldn't do nothing
But ask God to take away your pain
A life of struggles without gain
At just sixty -three
You were uprooted like a tree.
5. Mother!
Where do the dead go?
Why are there foes?
You couldn't eat what you labour for
So many questions but let me pause
'Cos it's of no use
It's is no longer news
That good ones hardly stay
That's really a price to pay!