BY RASHIDAT OLAMIDAYO AJAKAYE
Am I a proud woman?
Women and homes are compulsorily cultured confidants of each other,
if not women, tables would be under the home’s building,
and the floors would nag being ruthlessly used,
the tiled kitchen might grow walking weeds.
So women owe the home her primary purpose,
I will not leak that women naturally endow youths with attention,
before all others, home is first to women.
Am I a proud woman?
Multiplying my significance smartly as mirror captures its audience,
if I am a daughter first,
can I receive education if not schooling?
So that, I can better the mistakes of expectant parents,
afterwards, a sister I become in myself,
feeding interested minds my listening and remedial heart,
am I not meant to so do?
Am I a proud woman?
In same clothed world,
a friend I receive into my naked arms,
resolving issues by apologizing after being right,
“I am sorry” becoming your dearest utterance.
Loved and purchased into another roof,
I become a wife, rebuilding his joy,
if he attends a thousand of meetings,
I attend some so that he will appreciate me,
in the acknowledgement of his book of 963 pages.
Am I a proud woman?
Anxious to be a mother, another role sneaks in,
I become a daughter-in-law of a long established family,
modifying my habits and patterns to suit my new home,
I fulfill being a mother on the surface of birth
and it is intrinsic that I be a mentor,
closest friend and philosopher to the children.
To do these, I be a professional at my skills,
I must work, for “heads of the family”
now request division of financial functions.
Am I a proud woman?
Wedding off my priceless possessions,
promising unknown ladies from my sons a promising home,
promising unknown men my motherly moments,
as though a firm blood unites us.
I am a mother-in-law?
In same universe of conflict settlement,
I become a grandmother to their children,
cooking for a full party in my small kitchen
at every bell of holidays, “Grandma’s house for holidays!”
Am I a proud woman?
Not only a woman, but also a human,
multiplying my offices for brilliant outputs,
possessing rights of human beings,
to decide my personal life as a winged bird,
to realize thoughts of positive explorations,
to be filled, help others as humans so do.
So I say, “Yes, I am a proud woman!”
RASHIDAT OLAMIDAYO AJAKAYE
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