Life With Dolapo

  Source: Google You'd think the sun will ease up on it's bright hot smile The clouds will gather to discuss and weep And the earth would revolt against the incidence of the night before But all seemed well again with the world Except for the fact that all wasn't in Mrs P's. Early the next morning Mrs P was up to send her children to school I knew this because of the pot, kettle, stainless clatter  Mr P wasn't back with the ' muscle "- The only car the family owned. So the children alongside Mrs P Will have to use Okada to get to school this morning The moment Mrs P got out of the four walls of her apartment What my eyes made out in pictures Caused my heart to fall. Picture this A shattered mug cup holding water in it  Pieced together by invisible bandages That’s what she reminded me of. She was battered like chin chin dough  She had bruises forming an alternating pattern  With her normal skin like the  Red, white stripe of a  Christmas cane. She hid h...

  Source: Google  Not again  Not again!!!! Those were the first two sentences  That left my mouth  As I heard Mr P  Pounding and stumping  On what I suppose is the body of his wife Mrs P With each pound  Came a scream of anguish  And with a stump  Tears, bruising and blood  Plates or were they bottles  were falling to the floor  shattering  The hysterical laughter  “Hahahahahahah” The cynical hissing “Mtchewwwwww” Every sound suddenly amplified  For all to hear  But what couldn’t be heard Was the fear that gripped  Their 4children while they lay on their shared bed To rest from the day’s play. The door banged shut And a car engine comes alive  That must be Mr P leaving. Good riddance  But I knew he would be back in the day like nothing happened  The tranquil that once enveloped  The night in my small community  Was Torn from head to toe  In just a second  In one c...