Rockabye

a very free verse

Máyọ̀wá
Poets Unlimited
1 min readDec 12, 2016

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This child of mine
makes me smile
in the sun soaked night
in the ebony coated day
in the all alone
in the quiet (shh go to sleep)
in between frowns
in between our screams
and inside baby
all the way inside my freeing soul
all the way inside my winking heart

and you make me cry

inside my joy
because I love you.
I love you child that makes me smile
child that brings me smiles on a sun soaked day; in an ebony coated night

For my god-sister and oldest friend, and our baby

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Máyọ̀wá
Poets Unlimited

Nigerian-American. Wishes she could speak her mother tongue like her mother's tongue. Regaining my kàlore after living a mostly invisible life.