Dear Mom,
Where can I start to pick poems from vestiges you etched in my blood?. You look river long before the birth of water, aye! home where God hide his feet.
Thank you for offering me the spot, the ship to the shore, nine months hide, said it rains; little ways sky amused the sailor of june precipitation happy to join the river.
Thank you for your oculi, the way you behold me is a charm that can't be interpreted by Uzziel.
Thank you for folding me into your red oil palms; ornithoptera alexandrae and myosotis like a house wrapping itself with the ground, la bellezza, arewa, beauté, but we too are soulmate, you becoming me and I becoming you, until I smell like the tingling in your cuddles.
Thank you for the bolt of smiles that crowns your cheeks, for the dialectic guide, vocable that gave oxygen to my words and warm to my screeching language.
What about the maternal breast that did a great rest, than the jejune food given to me by my brother when you went to market to meal the milk?. What about you escaping into my eyes when I was leaving the village, no! emitting from my eyes, so I can carry you to every places on earth?.
What about nights, many nights, with no light, with no might, there was lightning, shadow booking windows, bright and fright, the shadow couldn't do anything, because you are the shadow I rest upon.
Mama, wura mi, my siblings will called you maami, this is memoryful, this is how babybirds hello their distance moms in the morning. Thank you for the walk to school, for the growth with other kids and kins. The roads of the universe is a lane build on your vigil, I am not lost when finding my ways, every falling is an invention to fly, it a way I replay how to laugh at the storm.
They said mother is the deep the earth rest upon, deeper than mind itself, for it was her who linked our minds to hers when we were curious in her womb, thank you mum (yemeyike), I love you in a way everlasting question itself, ever and more.
Adedire Adekunle Peter is a Nigerian poet whose work have appeared in Conscio magazine, Pen in rage magazine, Co-author Song Of Peace Anthology, attended World Online Poetry Workshop by Peter Solis Nery, 2019, Shortlisted for Bridgette Poirson Prize for literature 2023, Longlisted for Joe Ushie Poetry Prize 2027.
