Written piece
If you don't come back with wealth, don't come back to this house
Saviour Willie
Nigeria
About this piece
This poem is basically designed to expose the wickedness of most African mothers. They are money hunters. They don't care about the safety of their daughters. As long as the man drives the kind of car that matches their expectations, He is free to marry their daughter.
Voice from paint wall echoed "If you don't come back with wealth, don't come back to this house”
She walked into the background with her luggages
Tears drops on rough cheeks
She stared through the barrels of the painted house, a hint rising;
But she is thriven to decamp
Slowly
Her journey droves into a lone street, and then at an extreme where the cloud of mog-rain fade, A garnished looking rich-girl settled.
“Hi. You look worried. Can I help?”
There's this whole bunch of pains, like a prayingmantle who never speaks but retain its pride of dumminess; .
“No. I'm just trying to settle”.
My name is Sara. “I can help”
“Let me take you to my paradise”.
They zoom off.
“Wow. Are all these yours?”
She felt an atmosphere of crystal winds unlike the place she comes from.
“Yes. My darling”.
The camera walk to her face
“My Mum never gave us this moment. Times when Mum and Dad fight, blood shed. My siblings and I hid for protection against flying broken bottles. Times when Mum pushes us to the street of Lagos to fetch a rich man after our Dad's sleeps away in paradise”.
Sara understood this moment, but there's an inheritance left in this beautiful-golden-estate. Sara never explains this.
Camera followed her as she majestically walks into her well-furnished room—the one Sara introduced.
I like it, she said.
For some minutes, she sat down, think, write, remembers, imagine, and then finally fold the book and sleep.
A knock!
A scream!
A shout!
She wakes immediately. Body trembling. Fear mounting.
She swings her eyes on the phone, it's 8pm.
Door crack!
She peeps through the lenses on the door
two men in dark clothe with a red knife on their hand.
JESUS! she screamed..