by Adepegba Kehinde | |
Published on: Oct 6, 2003 | |
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Type: Poetry | |
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I quickly from the taxi alighted Seeing the mothers to be, I delighted In the reality that at the maternity Labourers like me were majority The hostile nurses ordered and I roamed The maternity as I groaned and moaned As if I was set on fire I cried louder than the town-crier I thought with awe, Oh! Woman in maternal labour Require the strength of the horse Than men in labour force I could not help but shout Half-nakedly, till my voice was out To the midwife I looked And to the agony I was hooked Bitterly, I swore under my heavy breath If I survive this arduous time length For this bundle of expectation I will never again yield to sexual stimulation As the time dragged and rolled My labour tides rose and felled It appeared, as if at the next minute That would have been it A cold wetness, I sensed There in, more lubrication was earned Exhausted though, I pushed hard again And in-between my thighs laid my gain With passion, I embraced my wages The most precious, come all ages Within, my being enjoyed a festivity That all labour activity has productivity « return. |