Monday, 24 February 2014
Murdered before Life
On my way back from work today I met a sad story. A group of students gathered most times means there's probably an ongoing fight with someone looking to be crowned the street champion.However today's crowd was different;adults were present and everyone seemed to be whispering a very oddity for students who exist for noise. As I got up close I asked a student what the problem was and he said "na baby", so I looked down the canal and there it was a baby laying in the canal mud. oh my God I could literally hear my heart break. I would have loved to update you with pictures but truthfully i couldn't see past the immediate tears that welled neither did I have the willpower to stand there another second. I had been in too much of a hurry in the morning to notice and now I was just angry at these people gathered and mopping at the baby , angry at the mother that had snuffed life out of the baby, I kept wondering what she'd done, how she'd felt, did she kill the baby first before dropping it or did she drop it alive and let it be tortured by the cold to death? what could have driven a woman to go through nine long months of pregnancy, hours of torturous labour pains only to throw the baby away?what? Every time I hear women talk about childbirth and all it entails I'm always fascinated and scared at the same time. what happened to that joy you're supposed to feel immediately the labour pains subside? I know couples who have had bad marriages, separation, broken homes all as a result of no children in the marriage. Yet here was one thrown away.Many questions came to mind: Like why not give up the child for adoption? why even become pregnant in the first place when you know you're not ready? if you're big enough to have sex why not use a contraceptive? or is it someone that was raped and had no choice but to get pregnant? is it a mad person's doing? a young scared girl? a ritual? my dad used to say that "the onus is on the owner to take care of what belongs to her"so it's not possible that this mother did not explore options in her mind during these nine months of expectancy, what if this is going to be the only child that she would ever have? Is it possible this was the solution she could come up with? whose fault is it?I don't understand so many things in life. Days like these drain me.
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