Uncle You Can'T Eat My Bride Price
uncle
you forgot you had a niece
you work in glasses
you wear the best clothes
you reign in shinning shoes
you eat the world at once
you send your kids to fly
you pretend to care
you pretend to call
you live comfortably
while I get bitten.
while I bail water outta my house.
while I try to be me.
while I sip garri
getting fever and my sight bad.
there's a million reasons why I should get mad.
Because you have more to waste and not a look back at your family.
I beg to buy books
I cry to pay fees
I plead to register
I try to finish up getting a man to be my hubby.
then you come in mass to request with your legs open, a price bigger than your entire bodies.
when you have no clue of how a child was trained.
you don't eat where you didn't sow.
you can't eat my birth price.
no! you can't.
Copyright © Tonye George | Year Posted 2017
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