A woman’s plight is no delight!
Time was when women never had a voice
Like children,
Seen not heard
And without choice
Voting! Who born dog!
All you were good for is sex and giving birth
Desperate to be Mrs. Somebody
You become nobody
A young woman turned into a wife
Who became a mother
Who became a nag
Who later became a slag
Who became boring
And ended up a divorcee
A woman’s plight is no delight!
If your womb a male child does not bear
You are considered no more than wear and tear
Along came women’s lib in exchange for a baby’s crib
Women’s Right? You got it all wrong
Women should be heard but not seen wearing a beard
Not trying to be a man
You are who you are
A pride, a blessing and a joy you are
Is it a delight or plight?
To know
From creation
You are destined for greatness
Meant to be an Empress
Your very nature demands that I be impressed
Your spell binding beauty always keeps my interest
You don’t have to undress
Or show flesh
To arouse my interest
How can I be king without you my queen?
There’s no you or me without We
But you sell your precious birthright
For a lousy one nightstand
Your precious wares flung before the undeserving kind
Fodder meant for swine
But for whom you truly are
An absolute crime
A woman’s plight is no delight!
To be Bullied, Battered and Beaten?
To be called whore, ‘hoe, slag or ashawo?
You were elevated by the Divine
You know you are sublime
But you willing sellout for a dime
Scantily clad in rags fit for a clown
A dishonour to your royal background
All you attract are thieves and clowns
Scum who know your worth
But would rather play with you in the dirt
Sticking filthy vile hands up your royal skirt
You aid the progeny of bastards!
For every man that takes a bite of your fruit
Their bite marks remain with you
Their essence a foul potpourri of vile character and traits
Merged into the soul, the essence of a new born
How can you forget your womb is royal passage?
Should you not choose a worthy one for the right of passage?
Like an extension of the Divine Tree
You are a passage to a lifetime
Woman!
Take up your mantle of honour
Disrobe from your regalia of dishonour
Don your royal gown of dignity
Let no one fool you of your royal ancestry
You are indeed priceless
If you don’t value YOU
The world will not wake up and increase your VALUE!
Great message but i think it could do with some editting, some of the rhyming seems forced.e.g. bear vs wear and tear. lastly the style is inconsistent flunctuating from queens english to nigerian lingo. Keep writing
@nicolebassey,
nothing wrong with the style.
Thank you @kaycee
If they can’t undress or show flesh, they should at least be smart.
It is easier for them to impress with the flesh things. A smart woman is rare.
Good poem jare.
Lol…true talk. Thank you.
@aturmercy this is awe inspiring! It’s mothers day at this neck of the woods, couldn’t be a more appropriate day for these reawakening lines!
From cradle to the grave,thus above has become many a woman’s plight..Yes! I will go there there now. Common sense is not a given right and defenses weakened over many years of degradation and the will to be.
The woman’s plight indeed is no delight. This transcends, status, education,beauty or whatever criteria that comes to mind.
The spiritual connotation in this poem blows the mind…”You aid the progeny of bastards!
For every man that takes a bite of your fruit
Their bite marks remain with you
Their essence a foul potpourri of vile character and traits
Merged into the soul, the essence of a new born
How can you forget your womb is royal passage?
Should you not choose a worthy one for the right of passage?
Like an extension of the Divine Tree
You are a passage to a life time”
Profound and well written!
@Dotta Thank u, thank u, thank u
After “Disrobe from your regalia of dishonour”, I don’t care for the remaining lines.
“Your precious wares flung before the undeserving kind
Fodder meant for swine”
The above lines seem contradictory to me.
Well done, very nice poem. Strong message too.
ya, I reason in same direction with you Rio …..
Thanks for reading. Pls see explanation given above.
Rio, thank you for reading.
I don’t understand why you don’t care for the lines after “Disrobe from your regalia of dishonour”? Is it that you find it offensive or that it’s irrelevant to the poem?
“Don your royal gown of dignity
Let no one fool you of your royal ancestry
You are indeed priceless
If you don’t value YOU
The world will not wake up and increase your VALUE!”
Regarding the seeming contradictory lines…
How can I be king without you my queen?
There’s no you or me without We
But you sell your precious birthright
For a lousy one nightstand
Your precious wares flung before the undeserving kind
Fodder meant for swine
But for whom you truly are
An absolute crime”
I guess it depends on how you have read this part of the poem. This aspect of the poem refers the honour and glory of being a woman which is being thrown away for an inconsequential relationship which only demeans the woman. Such behaviour or acts are beneath the woman she is supposed to be, hence fodder for swine.
Ashawo slag whore hoe. All these befitting titles 4 women? I dey envy them oo.
No be d names men dey call women?
NS ladies. Do something oo b4 something does you.
Lactoo, wetin go do dem naw?
Very strong and inspiring..Aturmercy you write well…guess U was in a rush to get this out and left out some words, mixed up the tenses. This would benefit from some cleaning up and then it can go on to be read out at a women’s forum or something quite like that. Really good one here…Well done…$ß.
Bubbly, thanks for the compliments.
I have read and re-read, but still didn;t see the errors or ommissions you suggest. Maybe you can highlight these pls. Thanks
This is very good Aturmercy. I hope it motivates our ladies as intended… Kudos! You did well.
Thanks Ableguy
Yeah true talk.
thanks
Nice work Aturmercy but for a few lines that might need editing or grammatical corrections especially at points where you mixed up present tenses with pasg tenses…..eg “is” and “become” in the line below, ought to be in a past tense as “was” and “became” respsctively…
Desperate to be Mrs. Somebody
You BECOME nobody
A young woman turned into a wife……..
Keep it up dear…
@Charles thank you for reading and commenting. I appreciate you doing both.
The words were chosen deliberately. @Dotta seems to be one of those who truly understands the concept of this poem. It chronicles the life of women present and past. Some of the past attitudes and treatment of women might not be the same, but their present lives echo opinions formed of them in the past.
Many women have been molded to believe that they are nobody unless their married to somebody. After struggling or trying to become Mrs somebody, they end up being nobody because the men they chose to be with regards them as nothing.
I hope my logic makes sense.
Beautiful words you put together there. I like it when men are sincere. Don’t always claim to be on top for nothing. Appreciate when it’s necessary and criticize also when it is.
I’m sure if men were more like this, they would be enjoying in the hands of the ladies more. Respect is reciprocal, shikena.
Well done @aturmercy.
Thanks @babyada
Nice poem, great message!
Thank you
Cool stuffs! ‘All the pepper, maggi, salt…..ingredient for the soup in the cooking pot’
Problem-cause-critics-solution. All in this piece. Nice!
I appreciate your comments. Thank u
@Aturmercy. This is a great piece. Simple, deep and clear.
Thank you for taking the time to read and comment. Highly appreciated.
Nicely written poem.
But I find the tone of voice confusing. At some point it seems to be bemoaning the plight of women, at another point its scorning women who sell themselves cheap to the wrong people and sort of generalises all women to be like that. It ridicules women then appreciates them.
Eventually it calls to them in encouragement in a few verses at the end.
Am I missing some objective here?
@Afronuts I appreciate your comments.
Yes the poem does bemoan the plight of women, but all it’s doing is drawing women’s attention to how they are perceived generally by men. Even though men generally perceive women this way does not mean that all women are this way. Neither does it mean that all men also perceive women in this same light.
The poem generally chronicles the plight of women at the hands of men. Christ fed 5 thousand with 5 loaves of bread, but that number didn’t include women and children; they were not worthy to be counted. So the poems draws on these instances that even those women were not and didn’t behave live slags, they were treated like they were inferior…
The poem does not scorn or ridicule any women, rather, it would like to draw their attention to how they are perceived and portrayed take a look at this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcHctqfk4FU&feature=share
Look at how Hip Pop portrays women… Is there anything dignifying about such a portrayal? Chris Rock even made fun of this, and how women don’t seem to care about their portrayal by Hip pop, Crunk etc.
@aturmercy
Hmmm…in fact you’ve made a powerfully convincing point.
Thanks for breaking it down…this was eye opening and even reminded me about something I was planning to do on Video Vixens.
With this insight them the poem was spot on!