Crying Mother By Adeola David

            File Photo of a crying mother 

Mama please don't cry, heaven heard your anguish

Please wipe your tears, heaven will surely judge them all. 

Your children died like a slave, but yet you still manage to 

sustained in dismay, you summon courage and hope in your 

hopelessness, you laughed in your locket every night in anguish 

because you are too old to bear this burden. 

The picture of your children remains unquenchable fire that 

burn like inferno in your heart, yet because you are a 

daughter of no man you silent in your sobriety, 

You strived hard to nurture and give your grand children sound 

education in your aged, still the same fate that bind their mother rock 

them all, they promise not to die like their parent and stand for their 

freedom, but now their blood wet the street and nobody to split 

the soil when you are gone. Oh!!! MAMA please dont cry.

Adeola David is a writer, a researcher and a motivational speaker, this sonnet is dedicated to all mothers and grandmothers that lost their children during peaceful protest at Lekki Toll Gate on 20th of Oct 2020.