Colour your mind, charm your world

Ugo m, the first son of my homestead My pride and joy The one from which my grand children will evolve Pure are your ways, soothing to my wish You bruised my womb even when I knew you not Wincing at my voice you kicked harder My lover unknown When I saw you, I smiled For I knew you all along For you, I gave away my soul I lost my body but I felt whole At the sound of your cry Beaming with smiles, I called you blessed The walls watched while I nursed you Into the iroko tree in your father's house I groaned and grieved for years Until your wings carried the feathers of education And your eyes knew wisdom No man born of a woman will say to me at the square "You are a bad mother!" May the gods bruise their lips! They will tarry at the market place with no sales! For they have touched the tail of a lioness CATALEABONEZ

Onwubiko! You are the only Victor over mankind Tested by tears and bleeding hearts You have bruised my heart and shattered this house Breaking through a beaming face You brought distress and pain Who do we ask? Is it our long forgotten forefathers? I saw you roaming in wistful arrogance Your trails were faint on the walls Leaving hints I couldn't understand It was a letter for me untold In anger and anguish Written off by the pangs of regret I sit in the temple gates of my heart Where I know the King of Kings dwellet Where my tears know no bounds My heart broken in shambles Starring deep at the great unknown Where the answers lay