ASAKE

Come with me, let me show you a story,

A story of a young lady with a glory,
She lives at the outskirts of the village,
And helps her blind mother to deliver messages.

Asake transcends all levels of comeliness,
This preventing her from the world of loneliness,
As young and old men desire,
All wanted her to be theirs as they require.

She became the pride of her mother,
Even as her father was murdered.
She took away her mother's tears,
Mitigating her of the future fears.

However, she opened her heart's gate,
Thereby prompting the thief to appear,
Though it seems he entered late,
Yet he didn't make his steps so clear.

The man called thief, exploited the village's jewel,
He took away her valour at the season of Noel,
Her pride became shattered.,
Her glory faded away before she noticed.

Alas, Asake has brought shame to her mother,
Thereby bringing back evocative memories of the death of her father,
Condemning the blind woman to eternal pain,
She prayed that one day her pain would be washed away be the heavenly rain.

Asake allowed the wicked word to rewrite her future,
Out of negligence she traded her eternal joy with few minutes of pleasure.
Now she regretted all her actions,
Hoping she could still achieve all her ambitions.

Just as the oceans flows without obstruction,
She continued her life in expectance of copious promotions,
Doing her works with all passion;
Brought an atom of hope without questions.

Favour found its way to her world,
And it came in with a lightened word,
"Would you marry me"? Came out of the lips of the next crowned king,
On his kneel he asked if she would be his queen.

Through the tube of happiness the news got to her blind mother,
Amazingly, the winds of joy opened the blind eyes.
Once again she experienced the atmosphere of merriment,
And her name changed from the usual "blind mother" to the "queen`s mother".

¤Asake is a female
name in the south- western part of Nigeria.

©Written by: Oke Oladayo