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Abiku Speaks

Abiku speaks..... sickle cell patient Let me go, for I’m in pains COS I’m guilty not, In this case. COS all these, are your own faults. Am not as wicked as you think, for I also Wish to stay as other babies do Only for you, to Have denied me, the right to do. I tried pleasing you, b’cos Staying a week is a difficult task. I wonder whom you lent your ears. Cos all this, has Mendel said. Far down early 1880s, But it’s a pity, people still fall victims, till late 1990s. Always will I keep to the soil, b’cos I have no strength, to endure the pains All your claims are correct not For I challenge you, to show just One, of those who came back not With their two ears fit I will only stay, If you do as the doctor says, “Check your rhesus and your genotype” “Before stepping into marriage”. But, if you yield not to warnings Then, in vain will nine month be. For, in my royal gourd, Will I abide!!!

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