Letter to my Mother

^{This is Strictly Fictional} 

^{​Dear Mother,}

^{I know this letter can never meet you well. This sounds like a curse but it's not because by this time you would be plunged into absolute despair.}

^{At first, you might be oblivious at the early hours of the morning because you would be busy with your preparations for work, your husband would still be in bed snoring like the ravenous beast he is, your other kids would probably be busy fondling with their new phones or drooling over the new gadgets you just got them.}

^{When it's time for breakfast, you would notice my absence because you would have expected me to put breakfast on the table but it won't be there .}

^{Angrily, you would scream my name but I won't  answer.  With fury like a ravenous wolf, you would walk to my room to unleash on me venomnous kicks but you would meet the door locked. You would knock severally and I won't answer.}

^{Livid at my audacity,  I am sure you would be muttering curses under your breath, vivid imaginations of how you would deal with me would be on constant replay. The sound of my cries and pleas would be music to the ears of your kids. By the time your husband and the kids would break down the door , you would meet me on the bed sleeping peacefully.}

^{Taarh! Taarh! A succession of slaps would land on my cheeks but I won't feel it. Your hands and  lips would quiver, cold sweat will form on your skin, panic will grip your entire body and your anger would come down. You would loving pat me and loads of eulogy would flow out of your mouth asking me to stop the costly joke but my lifeless body wouldn't bulge.}

^{While you"ll shake my body vigorously, tearing at your hair and wrapper, tears would stream down your eyes like a massive torrent, your kids would stand sober as they watch you kneel bedside my lifeless body.}

^{You would blame yourself wishing you had paid more attentions to me. You would desperately wish this was a bad dream and I am still with you in reality. You would move towards my writing table and find my suicide note with the inscription}

^{"This life sucks. I hope there is peace on the other side."}

^{It would dawn on your kids that they don't have someone to do their chores for them anymore. Your husband would be sad he had lost his sex toy.}

^{You would be taken away from my room looking miserable as your kids and husband take one final look at me before covering my body .}

^{But there is a pertinent question I would love to ask you mummy, "what would you tell people happened to me?"}

^{"Would you tell them I died a natural death?" I hope whatever you tell them you include tales of how you and your family maltreated me, how you made me bear the brunt of my father's actions. I hope you tell the world how bad of a mother you were .}

 

^{I know suicide is not the option but when I spoke out ,no one heard my voice, it was too frail. You were so busy with your perfect new family and completely ignored me.}

^{The Yorubas says; 'No one decorates the waist of someone else's child with expensive bead because her child's waist is not appealing.( we can't afford to take care of other children at the expenses of ours).}

^{NOSIRU SHARON}