My father's palmy has the sweet taste of his sweat.

...Omonoba...

Our people say:
Igbo: Üdara dachiri üzö mpïwa gü ya.
English: An udara fruit that falls on the side of the road is asking to be eaten.- Igbo Proverb.
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A poem I wrote.

Many fathers have spoken

But my father’s words were most profound

Many women have cooked

But my mother’s food was most tasty

Many ladies have cared

But my sister’s care was most tender

Many men have loved

But my brothers’ love was most anointing

Many fathers have brought home wine

But my father’s palmy had the taste of his sweat

The taste of his toil

His palmy was most strong,

And quenched my direst thirst

The man is tall like an Iroko tree

Big like an elephant

Harsh like the sting of a broom

Yet his strides are swift like an eagle,

Paced like a cheetah

Yet his silence is golden

His silence, is wicked

His silence is harder than words

In his silence I pray for death

The man I call my father, paale

With words softer than soap

And words as strong as the palmy he brings

And as soothing as the song he sings

His wife, my mother, maale

Whose dress is wet from my tears

Whose pot of soup has been emptied

Whose ears are blocked from my cries

That woman, her ways are simple

Yet her thoughts are thick

She cannot eat, when I am hungry

She cannot sleep, when I am awake

She cannot smile when I am crying

Her left arm is my bed and her right is my whip

Tomorrow, they will be frail

And no one will bring home wine

No one will cook me Ogbono soup

No one will shout at my foolishness

No one will calm down my stress

But will I be able to cook for my children them?

Will I have for them, what maale had for me?

If I may ever fail, may it not be here

May my sun be my maale

And my moon be my paale

Let their ways guide my earthly steps

Like the smell of my mother’s food guides me home. 

I hope everyone has a blessed week and that we NEVER for get family and how they are the only ones on earth who love us unconditionally irrespective of anything. They always love us no matter whether they go about the things they do the wrong or right way.