THIS DAY ........

THIS DAY.....
My dear inestimable daughter
This day i have prayed and
Prepared you for
This day i can’t help but cry
This day i slaughtered cows for
This day my girl is going
With all the love she has for me
This day she goes away
Forever goes away with this
Man unknown to us but her
As sweet as this my home is
Here she is vowing to live
With this stranger for as long
As she breaths
This day my feeling is purely
Interwoven with joy and sorrow
Diverse thoughts won’t let me be
But here my girl is smilling
Within her thanking her creator
For an answered prayer
Feeling that the mountain is moved
When she has never seen one
Looking at my girl i see a
A traveller with luggages
Gorgeously dressed and seated
In the bus and awaiting a driver
The driver she doesn’t know
The destination already set in the mind
But driver unknown,the route unfamiliar
Yet the destination,her priority
This day she has decided
This day i have accepted
This day, what more can i say?
For all my labour,pains,love
Sacrifices,endurance and resources
This stranger has brought dowry
And tubers of yam to me
Now my girl is gone with him
Gone to be a woman for a man
Gone to give this stranger her breasts
To get the best
Gone to give this man princes and princesses
This day she is gone to bear a strange name
In a strange land of a strange man
This day my girl publicly declared
She has found a new love,home and
Life till her breath walks out on her
This day my girl got married
This day my girl is exhanged for a dowry
This day i love but i cried !