Conversing Feelings [ON HOLD]

💜Who Should We Ask?💜

Who should we ask?
These questions that have us thinking and thinking.

Should we ask our mother,
Who sits beside him, laughing?
Her words says one thing,
Her actions screams another.

Should we ask the palm wine drinkers,
The ones who hears about the news and come to join in the celebration?
Who told them we were celebrating?
Who mentioned it was a gathering of joy?

Should we ask the chiefs themselves,
They have plenty already, so why pick us?
They just want to add us to the numbers.
Which still have us thinking...why?

Should we ask the women,
Who gather at the back of the house to cook?
Who tease us about marriage hood and how we were going to love it there?

Should we ask our father himself?
Since he's the cause of all these,
Who made this very decision on our behalf
He made plenty decisions of course...for his belly.

Did we tell them we were tired of going to school?
Did we tell them we were ready for this change?
Did we tell them we love the chiefs?

I look at Adunola,
I see the tears in her eyes and something else, hatred...?for our father maybe.
I think she has enough sense to know that she's going to be next.

It was Iyun last year,
Whose is next after Adun's?
The daughter they would soon birth probably...and she would have to grow so quickly,
So she would be exchanged as we were.

Tell him we are tired,
Tell him, maybe he doesn't remember, that the rice will finish so quick just as Iyun's own too.
And hunger would come knocking.

Tell him that the cow chief brought will not last forever,
Tell him he should stop selling us out.
Tell him we are not commodities for barter.

©️Eudaimonia🌻

This part is dedicated to Arike_ Thank you for being a babe love💜💜💜😍