Married To Reasons Poem by Oluseyi Akinbami

My Allegory will keep in memory strong reasons,
This epitaph will be emblazoned on walls as signals;
Them who feigned care for my cause will see
That I swore not in vain,
I saw the path clearly
I commune with my hearts on the consequences
The weigh, the burden,
Of a “better half” which is not better with me

The days of my tutelage in enforced bondages
The manner of a stepmother a schoolmaster,
The rivalry of bigotry in women
The enmity of selfishness
The contention of foolishness
Inconsequential matters employed to hurt innocence

The brevity of life, the passing time
The realities of death a mockery of our pride
The deception of men’s honour
The memory of a fool
The infidelity in godless women
The task of seeking a good wife

The hazards of little life in service to women
The mockery of aging experience in the sight of youth
The abandonment where greed leads blood away from home
The reflections of errors in glassy realities
The untamed lust to the desires of another
The wish for death of a long cold love for the sake of inheritance in women

I am a fool that I married not,
A fool that my children died in disaster (Plane Crashes, Accident, Sickness)
That all born were gone before my eyes
That I laboured for a despiteful insatiable hater
That i fathered a godless offspring causing the earth to mourn
Or that a criminal was born by me or a prostitute to serve the hunger of men ere the oath

I am a fool,
No child to call me father
No wife to tease me with the name “Honey”
None to watch over me in ebbing strength wearied by aging ills
A folly which I considered before the evil days


It was not for inability to bring forth
Or weakness in close door gym of bedfellow
Ask these daughters or their husbands who knew the days afore the oaths
This an unspoken reasons are answers to questions never asked