Mother Nature Poem by Funkekeme Akposeye

Mother Nature



I wake up in the morning and your face is the
first thing i see, i take a deep breath and i laugh
out, ha! ha! , remembering the outdoors and the
sea, Oh dear ma! ma!
You are so dear to me and always will be
because you have always being there for me
even before my birth and always will be even
after my death
But i can never understand how your mood
changes and how you are everywhere cities and
even the hoods, ranges, one minute you are
smiling and shining and another minute you are
crying and wetting like babies
Making me wait until you are over your emotions
or an umbrella to shade me from your tears and
because of you the trees grow that have
provided shades for me all these years
When i say shades i mean aids, clothes,
eyeglasses and books for the African schoolchild
coming home with no umbrella caught in your
lament who gets home with wet garments, poor
child.
All so beautiful also pitiful your own children
hurting you vomiting and defecating at your nose
making you sneeze because you are so trusting
still caring for us in our sleep
Disgusting when we are killing your other
children, deceased, some are gone, forever gone,
extinct, whatever, a good reason to be angry,
frankly i fear and love you making entrances
grandly and surprisingly with disasters.
Understanding you is impossible, we have no
clue what we do, that is why we act confused,
our mother is a killer, our Savior, our teacher, is
it possible? maybe i have a flu.
Remembering last September all through
November to December, the rain, hurting my
brain as i try to understand what the teacher
preached to us about the weather and what the
preacher teaches us about heather, whether its
right or wrong, short or long, weak or strong.
Early morning dew, everything brand new, every
day renewed like its overdue, but the disasters i
wish you will reduce, but we have no power only
the view of an hour, your showers i know help
the flowers but please don ' t devour us like the
age of Noah from the bible pages building
towers.
The seas, i want to see, disease, i don' t want to
see, feel us with awe even as we walk your way
without knowing your ways, like how water got
in a coconut or why a man goes nuts or why i
cant get donuts from groundnut, the whole
universe in your hands as we go through life ' s
university waiting for whatever you put in our
hands.
Mother nature even as we continue to denature,
be a mother cause its in our nature, we even
fight each other nation to nation and we need
each other in the circle of life although what we
do may not be right but you are at fault too,
slight, like when we die and what you give free
we have to buy, and close our eyes in eternal
sleep, goodbye.

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