Lack of Evidence

(Singing)

Hush little fetus, don’t you cry

mama’s not gonna see you grow to child

Hush little egg, please don’t you hatch

Cos mama’s not here to keep you warm.

The Nigerian law makes it a crime to perform

or to obtain an abortion, labelling it as illegal

that I can agree with,  people who still do it are

ill from a disease that is making a meal of their body, and

I’m sick of seeing them place an order

to be served Egal to God every time they

snuff out the light and blow into nothingness

the existence from which man was formed

cos how do you explain 610,000 future you’ve pushed

into oblivion and the time you reset

the minute you flushed down the drain

the happiness that could have embraced

 joy with scalpels that tore open your bellies and

vomited the evidence of your…well let’s just say evidence

and in silence you remain 

knowing that nothing could be used against you

acquitting yourself of first degree murder as the plantiff suffered a

terrible fate which has left its attorney defenceless without his key witness.

Now the case has been thrown out of court for lack of….Yea, you can say it again

But do you hear the shatter of the broken lullaby sung by lips cracked

with no gloss to give spark to the voice that chants the melody?

that is the life that could have been the save-your heart lunged for

but no air to breathe your last…

Then you’d remember

how your baby appealed to live

wanting to see and touch your face with hands full of trust

looking to cover your mistakes with glues of toothless gum

not judging, even though you were an accessory to an act

meant only for couples…

But now it’s too late,

A statistics as the child who died the same day

you gave yours for the sake of burying the evidence