{"id":4874,"date":"2015-04-30T06:01:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T06:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4874"},"modified":"2015-04-30T06:01:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T06:01:41","slug":"the-ghost-of-the-foetus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4874","title":{"rendered":"THE GHOST OF THE FOETUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/festus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4875\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/festus.jpg\" alt=\"festus\" width=\"187\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>I sojourned in the world of dreamy greenery<br \/>\nof little flowers<br \/>\nBeyond the visible mass of earthly cloak<br \/>\nPraying, let the opportunity to blossom forth<br \/>\ndawn on my anxious bud<br \/>\nTo cast off my karmic colours for sparkling white<\/p>\n<p>He showed up with masculine promises<br \/>\nFlaunting vanities and speaking sweet lies<br \/>\nYou responded to loving him the more<br \/>\nSwaggered about and trusting his protective muscles<br \/>\nAlways wanting to sniff his illusive ambience<br \/>\nYou fell to his fantasies and deceitful kisses<br \/>\ntraded your virtue for bait<br \/>\nThen he played with your virgin womb, planted a seed<br \/>\nAnd watered by the faithful gardeners<br \/>\nOf whom my foetus grows each passing time<\/p>\n<p>You realized his antics and evil swelled up in your heart<br \/>\nYou hated motherhood, hated my ghost<br \/>\nlooked the cradle and the nappies in disdain<br \/>\nand forbids mother\u2019s kiss to her new born<br \/>\nNever allowed my tender lips to yell and suckle<br \/>\nDenied my little voice a first cry to the world<br \/>\nUnmindful of the pains inflicted on my delicate body<br \/>\nAs you gulped the pharmacist murderous pills<br \/>\nAborted my dream through the Doctor\u2019s knife of anguish<br \/>\nPiercing into my heartbeat<br \/>\nand letting my blood of life flow into the unknown<br \/>\nI died with my dreams<br \/>\nI died when I never lived<br \/>\nWoman your womb was not a tomb<br \/>\nBut a haven to nurture my little body to life<\/p>\n<p>by Ikike Etokeren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sojourned in the world of dreamy greenery of little flowers Beyond the visible mass of earthly cloak Praying, let the opportunity to blossom forth dawn on my anxious bud To cast off my karmic colours for sparkling white He showed up with masculine promises Flaunting vanities and speaking sweet lies You responded to loving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/festus.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1gC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4876,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions\/4876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}