{"id":5827,"date":"2015-08-27T20:25:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T20:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5827"},"modified":"2015-08-27T20:25:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T20:25:33","slug":"mothers-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5827","title":{"rendered":"MOTHER’S DECLARATION"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mothers\"<\/a>When night creeps in
\nWith the stillness of calm,
\nI cringe at the journey
\nOf my born children. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n

When night steals in
\nWith the calmness of still,
\nI weep at the sojourn
\nOf my unborn children.<\/p>\n

The garden of life
\nOnce so plush and alive,
\nNow a withered wasteland
\nInfested with ghouls
\nRoaming nooks and crannies
\nFor my children’s soul.<\/p>\n

They scavenge the garden
\nIn search of struggling sprouts
\nTo wantonly debauch.
\nAnd that they cannot take
\nThey feed to the hawks.<\/p>\n

For my endangered children,
\nShorter are my days with you
\nI make this declaration…<\/p>\n

You my little ones
\nAre but sprouting plants,
\nTender in your aspects
\nYet home to strong intuitions.<\/p>\n

From the pureness of your core
\nYou sense the smile of evil,
\nSeeking to incarcerate
\nAnd strangle your purity.<\/p>\n

The thorns and strangling weeds
\nAre but opaque visions
\nOf your skewed brains
\nAfflicted by a supine plague.<\/p>\n

But the garden of life
\nRemains pure and glowing.
\nMake haste to tend it.
\nDrink the living message
\nIn every dying leaf patch
\nAnd evil shall avoid you.<\/p>\n

Laura McDonald-Amurun<\/a>
\n07\/05\/2015<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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