A DATE WITH WINE

Bar tender could you please pour table 9 three glasses of your best wine,
Make it sharp cause this throat is all heated up,
It's hard to hold it in,so please hasten your steps!
Bar tender Don't forget to add some shorts on the plate, cause I feel these glasses are just going to quench the thirst And not kill the urge.
And yes, place some cigarette packs just to hike the day!

Don't be surprised that a girl of my type is sited in an isolated three seater couch,
I can't help but try and get rid of the ache,
Okay bar tender check!
Just this morning the landlord left an eviction notice at my door step,
I woke up abit drowsy as always so am quite an sure about the due date,
But I had a commitment with my immediate cousin's child it's a kind of piece work,
I was there three mins past our scheduled time so I had to lie,
Unfortunately it didn't count so she poured a whole sac of insults!
That to me was alright so long as I got my pay check at the end of the month,

I was done with my morning chores but looking at time I had to catch up with robins and cotran, so i hit the road run,
I could worry about having a relapse with my gastritis cause I didn't have my breakfast, though it's not like I ever did! So I didn't mind!
The most important thing at the back of my mind was how I was going to explain being late to my lecturer for the hundredth time....
Surprisingly I was let in by luck apparently there was a stuff meeting so the big man hadn't stepped in yet,
30min past he was done lecturing apparently that's what I remember,
Lol bar tender it was a two hours lecture but as always it caught me sleeping.
Now my day had just began!
As always after class my school mates would like to have a discussion with this somewhat smart kid,
I don't know how to explain to them that if I did then my land lord would send me packing back to the streets,
So off I went to clear off some debts!!
Practically am ever attending class theoretically,
Sadly I always have to work even an extra plus for my exams,

Bar tender I understand if you don't get me,
Neither did I slide here so you could sympathize with me,
I think the past years of dealing with my folk's absence, cruel cousins and unconcerned landlord's have been nerve wrecking,
It's not like I stopped praying to God it's just that I get less on my knees,
Am dealing with a lot of burdens and I don't think am hanging in there,
Got tired of having a migraine so I stepped here so I could drown my sorrows,
I also hoped this huge weight would clear off,
I juggle between survival and education,
I wish I could curse at fate and then call for the ground to break and take me in,
Sadly I can't cause am not the only one living like a forsaken kid,
Bar tender am just kidding , I am an orphan.

Sometimes am tempted to ask if others had a better ticket when passing through the labour ward,
Otherwise why is the world divided unevenly,
Okay wait I think am getting tipsy,
Sorry bar tender I don't mean to curse but life has really left me bruised and scared,
Would it have been different if my parents were around? Maybe had they survived the car crash?
I don't know, maybe I wouldn't have even learnt the life lessons,
Anyways, I can't take my life,
If I did then It would be blasphemy to the one above,

Kikiki bar tender you are such a good listener,
You should try and be a judge,just kidding,
Bar tender have to get going I have some tiles to scrub before midnight,
School bills have to be paid before the school decides to kick me out.
Hey, bar tender, dining with wine isn't such a good idea please stay sober,
Says the kid who just took 3 bottles of wine,
We always remain hoping,
Maybe tomorrow the sun will shine alittle different 🫂
But today we choose to be unwise!

Margret Nande Songwe
A date with wine