Deep discovery

Deep discovery

By Abraham Nwankwo

My dear Arie please listen with calm,

My king husband and I are only your foster parents;

Umonte my maid is your real mother;

And Babango now gone is your real father.

Arie then began to really understand,

How the well of life could be deep;

How unfathomably mysterious the dividing line,

Between reality and fantasy could really be.

Then mother and child embraced and re-embraced,

In excited but emotional re-discovery.

As the clock of their lives to a new start wound;

And, their world to a new beginning was re-set.