Thank You Mama Poem by kelvin karani

Looking back into the past
My life is a rain forest
A desert, bigger than the Sahara
And I, an almost lone sojourner

My life is a Greek puzzle
Cryptic and not for my kind
No clues and I can't fill it
For I'm a kindergartener

I am just but a grown up toddler
Having no knowledge of reality
I stumble and fall

It was not enough for her
For nine months to carry me
The kicks and aagh, the labor
My diapers and that awful cry

The innumerable problems she's been through
Because of me, for me
Oh! The pains yet always true
So many problems but she didn't flee

Always there she has been
Through childhood and the teens
No greater love have I seen
Than this of a mother so good

Mama, oh mama Africa
How do I, your child
Be good like you, be your replica
To say thank you, thank you to you.