Missing
MISSING
Who said my daughter was missing?
We wouldn't find her replica... anywhere
She wasn't in school...not at her sister's creche
She wasn't there...I mean nowhere
Maybe it's nothing to ponder on anyway
We looked for her everywhere
Who saw her...my sister's daughter?
All we found here was her teddy bear
Oh God dear!!! where is my daughter?
What do you mean you don't know?
I left her with you this morning
Could she be missing or stole or taken
Taken to where...the unknown destination
Someone must have taken her
But to where?
My sister became caged like a bird without a beak
She couldn't cry nor laugh
Her eyes swollen like she's dead alive
As we speak...she was working slowly off us
Barefooted and with her head gear loose
Before we know it...she was on the other lane
Soliloquizing only to herself and the gods of the land
Reality knocked us all at once
Get hold of her now before ... we all chorused
As we reach out to her... her smile spoke in French
It was a language we understand not
She suddenly changed direction towards the East
It was a midnight black evening
With no sun speaking to the moon
She became a mother without a child
No one at all for her to breast-feed
No sob of a child for her to dry off
Alayande Stephen T.
2.17pm
9th June, 2015
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