USA Africa Dialogue Series - Ugonnaya (Poem)

By Chidi Anthony Opara

 

The sun was out

Battling with rain clouds,

Nurses hurried

To and from the labour room,

In the waiting room

Sleep took me into her bosom.

 

A nurse nudged me

With the doctor's note,

My sleep soaked eyeballs

Starred,

I signed

And the caesarian section

Commenced.

The calendar called that day;

May first nineteen ninety-six.

 

With protruding nerves

And protesting pocket,

I await doctor's pronouncement,

The wait seemed endless.

 

Ugonnaya

Wailed from the labour room,

My waiting heart

Whirled with joy,

The wait was worthwhile.

 

Mother

And the teeny weeny

Were wheeled into the ward,

Mother

In peaceful slumber,

The teeny weeny still wailing.

 

 

 

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