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ADELLA

  ADELLA……..!!!!!!!

Then......

 Adella, mama was in pain and gave you the first breath,

Adella, aunty walked in the rain to get mama something to eat,

Adella, your sister Nandy was too young to admit…..,

 But she’s the one who gave up something you could fit.

Adella, you are the African girl who didn’t have a nursery but you had mama to swing,

Adella that’s your father he provides, and that’s your brother the only person school uniform fits,

But mama can’t I go to school too? Adella, Adella I knew from the moment you kicked you had demons I have to defeat,

Okay mama I am sorry and I won’t repeat.

Brother can I get what you get from school that you can teach?

Adella, Adella this is a task only men can switch.

Now....……

Hey Adella now women can go to school too,

 Yesssss I knew one day the imaginings will come true,

You know what they even provide and do the works men do……. but a few,

I saw a woman in a plane and she flew.

Did you say a few? Yes Adella a few….

So women don’t experience pain too..?, No Adella they still do…

But with feminism we are leveling up…unbelievably like voodoo…

Am happy but listen we are not equalization, 

We are not a comparison,

 We are the pain….

The pain they will never gain…..

The pain that makes love rain…..

The love that makes us reign………

But Adella……….!!!!?????

Yes the power is within……….

It doesn’t take workshops, gatherings and markable days to get in…..

It doesn’t even take quotes, speech and even a limerick to make it win…….

So Adella what are you saying……..???

Am saying the woman-ship is within…….

So before using you, we and between…..

 I suggest you use “I”…. for you to begin....

Adella leant.


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