To You Mama (Part 1) Poem by Kingsley Egbukole

To you mama
For decades of agony
To only you mama
For years of perseverance
To you and only you mama
For hope untainted
In the future of your progeny

When decades ago
Unfeeling soldiers marched papa away
He returned not
And we were very young

You almost gave up
Just three years in marriage

Suitors worried you on end
Young, handsome and rich
Your hope refused remarriage
In the children you love


(Saturday 30th August,1997)