Plea of a dying mother –Just a promise from friends -Poem by Betty Makoni
Plea of a dying mother –Just a promise from friends
All you friends who remain
I wanted you all to be there as I took my last breath
I wanted you to just promise me with all truth and sincerity
Only one promise that you will be there for my children
Just a promise my friends and is enough to make me rest in peace
Promise me you won’t leave that man to remarry and leave my children with a stranger
For what can she do if she is made the dumping site
Promise me you will not leave my children to be dumped forever
Promise me that you will stand up and speak out
Just promise you will speak even more when you know am wronged
Promise me my children won’t be orphaned or oppressed
Promise me it won’t end with my body viewing but my children`s viewing
Promise me as long as you are mothers, my children have mothers
Just promise you will answer when they call you mother
Plea of a dying mother , just a promise from my friends
Promise they will not be like one Betty Makoni
Whose siblings she cried for when stranger beat them so hard in the house
Promise no relatives will call them names
Like with Betty Makoni they called them witches
Even when there was no witchcraft
Thieves even when nothing was stolen
Just accusations, suspicions and superstitions
Promise me a dead mother`s child will never be a witch
Nor a slave, nor a vendor,nor a thief , nor a street kid nor Ngozi-the avenging spirit
Plea of a dying mother, just promise me
Promise me you will smile when my children smile at you
Promise me you will watch from a distance and act within a distance
Just a plea of a dying mother, plea for promises
Promises to make me rest in peace
The plea of a dying mother
I lost my mother at age 9. Even to date am still bereaved.
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