Mother-Child Poem by Amos Christopherson Masereka

Hands so shaky and slippery
To let go of the mother child
Mother in tender pain in her shoulder like heartburn
She became unthinking falling forced
Stretched all fours to reach hold the child repeatedly in vain
Mother child crying loud I could hear
My hands supported my heel bone of one leg
Limbed near the mother to call her name
In case she heard anybody in her reddish silence
Mother child unaware of events prior to taking her for chest scanning
she sobs and sighs mum, dad, sorry for the wounds.