Missing

MISSING Who said my daughter was missing? We wouldn't find her replica... anywhere She wasn't in school...not at her sister's creche She wasn't there...I mean nowhere Maybe it's nothing to ponder on anyway We looked for her everywhere Who saw her...my sister's daughter? All we found here was her teddy bear Oh God dear!!! where is my daughter? What do you mean you don't know? I left her with you this morning Could she be missing or stole or taken Taken to where...the unknown destination Someone must have taken her But to where? My sister became caged like a bird without a beak She couldn't cry nor laugh Her eyes swollen like she's dead alive As we speak...she was working slowly off us Barefooted and with her head gear loose Before we know it...she was on the other lane Soliloquizing only to herself and the gods of the land Reality knocked us all at once Get hold of her now before ... we all chorused As we reach out to her... her smile spoke in French It was a language we understand not She suddenly changed direction towards the East It was a midnight black evening With no sun speaking to the moon She became a mother without a child No one at all for her to breast-feed No sob of a child for her to dry off Alayande Stephen T. 2.17pm 9th June, 2015