The Children Poem by Tony Adah

Mother was too powerful
She kept it to herself, works hard
To earn her freedom and sent
Us to school;
Then she was no more.
Rain fell heavily at home and not
At school,
Tomorrow when we go to school
Our teacher will lash us twelve
Strokes of the cane
We will jump up, cry hard not loud
Enough to tell the truth;
We were never aloud to utter a word
It was not fair because we were
Orphans and no one cared to hear
Our story
That's what we got being orphans
Because we were fatherless and
Motherless.