MOTHERLESS CHILD

Symbiosis is the adore

Of the presence age

The motherless child

The cry of a motherless Baby

Who can aid?

The symbiosis of the maternal home

And the price of their aid

I buy the plodding story

Of the eternal crazy mother

Who abandoned her child

In a cloudy down of the day

By motor park gutter                                                                       

What an insolence?

That bothered

The whole community?

Into plundering young shabbily dressed?

To pay the price

To the crime of the abused

Of motherless child

Abandoned, neglected and maltreated

By unknown wicked Cee-Cee

Oh! Humanity cries

And children wails

For the motherless baby home

The mother is gone

And the children are alone

To non mother to care

But maltreated, neglected and abandoned

Oh! Mother why?!

Is the cry of a child

To depend on strangers

Is to solicit ate for safety

I cry for my mother

But I cannot find her

Oh! My God

Why leave me to suffer?

For a motherless child

Is like a doom child

Created by divinity

But abandoned by nature

Today is a day

Of a motherless child

Do you know one?

Endeavour to pay visit

Written by: Onyia Emeka Harford

DESCRIPTION: The poem motherless child is a satire that is used to educate the plight of motherless baby home. It points to the states of a motherless children; the poet uses a crazy woman to describe how some of these children became victims of motherless, and were found where their mothers whom some of them are prostitutes that smokes Indian hemp and cocaine, and as a result Illicit sex is nothing to them, they will got pregnant and after 9 months only to give birth to a child and dump them in the dustbin, we have several cases in past within my community in Nigeria:

One is where a teenager of secondary school put to bed in the absence of her parents, cook the child and wrap the child in cellophane bag and was about to dispose her right inside the bush near a stream, when the mobile police men that were chasing after a robber arrived the premises, suddenly caught her and searched what she was about to dispose into the river and they discovered it was a cooked baby.

Secondly, another case was in former University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Enugu location where a baby was hospitalized and all hope lost from her recovering, according to the events that led to the baby’s being hospitalized was that her mother who was a teenager put to bed right inside the toilet and was about to flush the baby through water system pit toilet which proved unsuccessful and being a public yard as well as public toilet, the next confidential personality that wanted to ease herself entered on her coming out bleeding and saw a baby and some pull of blood in a bucket, and he rescued the baby when the young teenager started pleading that she should not report the event to the parents. The person went and alerted the parents who were not aware that she was pregnant.

So these events form the bases for this African background Poem.

From line 1-4: Now, the poet is trying to use the word symbiosis to describe the type of relationship that exists between the babies who are helpless benefiting from their mother who gets nothing in the process. Trying to tell us that the child cannot do without the mother, the poet also let us to know that it is this type of relationship that is reigning and respected in the society today: where one becomes the baby yielding to the other who acts as a mother, the Poet using this to describe the helpless children in the motherless baby home who are lacking this relationship and as a result suffering in anguish.

From line 5-8: The poet also continuous to ask rhetorical question about this need of motherless children, by asking as well who will help and give them the care they are supposed to receive from their mother? Or who can support to provide for the needed material for them to receive those cares from another source? The poet continues to tell a story of a motherless child.

From line 9-12: The Poet continues to describe the victim as a crazy personality who abandoned her child under the sound of thunderous heavy rain of cloudy weather in a motor park gutter.

From line 13-16: The poet still continues to condemn the act by saying what an abuse of a child that troubled the whole community within the Motor Park to catch the young prostitute and handed her over to the police for interrogation and prosecution of this wicked act.

From line 17-20: The poet continues with the punishment measure that the police charged the young prostitute for dumping a new born baby at motor park only to be picked by a stranger.

From line 21-24:  The poet describing the young prostitute as a wicked club girl who does not know the value of a baby. The poet begins to express concern how humanity cries and wails for the child who was taken to the motherless baby home because of the way the mother who smokes Indian hemp as well as a prostitute treated her. The poet connotes this case to other children in the motherless baby home having similar cases.

From line 25-28: The poet felt for the lonely children who are in the motherless baby home receiving a non motherly care treatment.

From line 29-32: The poet now express concern how those children felt over the loss of a motherly care in expense to a stranger who cannot love them like their own mother will do. The poet now describes their situation as one of solicit ting for help and security.

From line 33-36: Still on expressing concern, the poet now express the feelings of these growing children who will have the burden and stress of searching who their mother will be? But will end up without solution, only to remain in agony of blaming God for bringing them to a lonely world.

From line 37-40: The poet now describes the motherless child to be doomed child who is created by divinity but abandoned by destiny which is natural remark and unpredictable.

From line 41-44: The poet finally let everyone to know that today is a day for remembering a motherless child, and asked if you know one? That you should endeavor to pay a visit today.

WRITER/PUBLISHER: ONYIA EMEKA HARFORD

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