Best Poems Written by Tawanda Nyahasha

Hello Mother

Hello Mother
It’s me the son you don’t remember
The son you were ashamed of and ready to give up on
I bet you have forgotten about me mother
I’m the son you pushed out like a disease

 I have written this mother to tell you
 To tell you I don’t need you
 That I’m doing well without you mother
 That I’m a man now
 But what is a man dear mother
 Is lying that I hate you when I wish you back being a man
 Is opting for hate because I can’t bear loving a woman who left me being a man
 Oh mother indeed I’m a man
 A man who is broken, a man who is in turn going to make other things broken

Oh mother how I blame you
I blame you for everything
I blame you that I mistreat women
Because I wasn’t taught how to love one
 But mother I hate you even more knowing that you are not to blame
 That the way I treat women has nothing to do with you
 That it only has something to do with my fowl character
 Thus mother you have become an excuse for my misgivings
 Thus in some sense I don’t want you back
 For your absence gives me an excuse to mistreat other women

Oh mother how sad it is
I have child with a pretty lady
A pretty lady whom I have abandoned
The same way my father did to you
So I know that pretty lady is going to abandon my child as you did me
Oh mother how can I blame you, you didn’t know what to do
Oh mother how can I repeat the mistake of my father when I know what you went through
Mother the grandchild you will never meet will also be writing a hate poem to a daughter in law he will never meet
The same way the son you never met is writing a hate poem to you right now
Oh dear mother what have we done
Oh dear mother we have created a vicious cycle

Copyright © Tawanda Nyahasha | Year Posted 2019