Blaise Aboh: My eulogy to mama

                                       
Dear Mama,
 I wish you were near mama
 I miss you dearly
 Oh! I just cannot bear it

 My heart stops when your face comes to mind
 Same heart skips for you, mama, you’re so fine
 Who can I compare you with? No one!
 Oh mama! To me you’re everything


 I love you but it’s not enough
 I’m grateful but still it’s not enough
 I always want to have thoughts of you Every day,
I want to celebrate you

 I haven’t got a kid or a wife
 You are all I live for, my life
 My steps, my courage
 My biceps, my homepage

 You are my sight, my smell
 My sun, so bright as well
 My garlic, my manna
 My ginger, my water
 My path, my guide
 You pray for me all day, all night

 My breath, my health
 My strength, my wealth
 My abs, my gusto
 When you smile, who is Marilyn Monroe?

 To describe you, words are insufficient
 I swear mama, you’re hyper-efficient
 If you were a girl, only you na girls
 But you’re a woman, mama, only you na women, yes!

 You’re my oasis in the Sahara desert
 My parenthesis, my platinum bracelet
 My tinker, my tailor My soldier, my spy
 My thinker, my hero
 My shoulder, with you I climb high

 My raindrops, my nature
 My shield, my sword My teardrops, my aperture
 My first wonder of the world

 Should I be grateful for only the 9months in your womb? Nay
 ‘Cos mama, in that same dome you carry me till this day
 What would I have been, if not for you?
 Would I be tall, dark, handsome if you weren’t black and beautiful?

 Your heart, Oh! It’s like a gold bullion
 You’re my one, my two, and my ten trillion
 A bee can never be as busy as you mama
 A Persian blade could never be as sharp as you mama

 Not even honey could be as sweet,
I swear it For your heart beat is like music to my ears, when I hear it
 Dear Mama, words can never be enough, but I hail!
 I shall keep speaking of your goodness in songs and in tales.