My life is a shadow of loneliness
Heart as raindrops on a grave
From the constant bickering of each family member stands
Makes everything hollow
Nothing is worth your happiness
I learnt this the hard way
Became anti-social to please his term of morality
Threatened with dysfunctional relationship
I became scared of losing him, so I succumbed
Emotionally and psychologically messed up
I became cold, a shield to prevent a fatal breakdown
Things got worse, life became steel
Guess it goes that way
Before my sixth year rises from the east, momma had gone west
It made things clear but hard
Family became the ghost of the past
Things got ruffled, greediness set in
No one care but for the sound of raindrops
Years walked past with things remaining the same
Then a new formed family
But nothing last into forever
With regrets, causes and hate choking breath
My head became wastebasket of questions
Why do things have to be this way?
I didn’t choose this life
Yet it chooses me for what?
As another of her lab rat?
When people tell me to be happy and just smile, “it will pass away\"
I keep mute, you never will understand
Until your basic needs become hostages
If I tell you that everything has a sequence of being taken from me
For am just a privileged slave, not knowing when she will be taken into plantation
Precious Chukwudi