Tell Mama by Oki Kehinde Julius

Tell mama,
even if her saggy nipples
have deprived our kwashiorkored tongue
from sucking the milky breast of existence….
fire the catapult of beckon to her,
with the caress of two hot palms
to foot her wrinkled feet
into the calmly tattered shoe of the dove.

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tell mama,
this ugly ‘make up’ of misfortune
she caused to scrub away
the signature of beauty from our shackled face
is not a smelly frangrance reason
to consent our faked frailed fate
to fetch the teary waters of mischap
with the cataclysm bowls of calamity
from the river bank of her eyeball
that metaphors the flowing stream of river niger.
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tell mama,
to patiently rest her chagrin liver
on her fleshy fiesty kidney.
even if her careless thumb picking of ‘horse-band’
had caused her eye son
a journey to a nightmare
with an empty stomach.
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tell mama,
to start kissing together
the lips of these firewoods,
for a marriage comminion
beneath the buttock of the pot.
for this idle barns and basket
that glories under the roof of emptiness
will soon harvest for our starved oesophagus
an apetizing spicy grains and tubers
which will surely amnest the militant intestines
that crave armageddon wars
bequeath the wrestling ring of our belly.
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tell mama africa,
to stop quenching our chronical thirst
with this teary salty fluid of her’s.
for if we truly need salt
we’ll paddle down to the sea-sore.
tell mama,
to stop percussioning
the melody of her heart beat
for our feet are now weak
to dance to the tune of hardship
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tell mama africa,
to throw a steeling spanner
to this bicycle of worries and nives…
for we awaits the solar king
which will visit our catastrophe soil
in the subsequent drop of morning dew.
we awaits this blooming day
that will bring for us,
the warmth of the scorching sun
which will suck dry
our wet watered garment
which our ugly fate had soaked
with the tears of misfortune…
but before then,
help me tell the mother of africa
to start folding the lines
creator laced on her fleshy cheeks
with an evocative cheerful smile.
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#NIGERIA_WILL_SOON_BECOME_BETTER
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©OKI KEHINDE JULIUS 2016