Poem dedicated to all children, born and unborn – (c) Rabison Shumba – 22 June 2012

She did not apply for it
She did not beg anyone for it
She did not even wish or think about it
Because she was not even there
To be involved in it

She was a person right at conception
She grew speedily under the womb’s protection
She did not know anything about recession
Yet she was considered a blockage to the mother’s ambition
Yet this girl was modelled to perfection
Did she deserve what was coming her way?

An attempt to decimate her existence came
A plan to eliminate her was hatched all the same
It seemed like a joke but the mother was not about to play a game
She was resolute to make the little embryo vanish to protect her name
At all cost she did not want hindrance to her fame
Did the little girl deserve this short lived existence?

She arrived on earth to a huge frown both parents
They both felt they did not have a cent even for her garments
Yet she was not involved in their intimacy sentiment
All she did was agree to become their remnant
Not knowing what was coming would be permanent
Did she really deserve this treatment?

She was lame from birth from the attempted abortion
Her brain was damaged without her permission
She could not grow to tackle her own mission
Yet she never applied to be born in an ablution
She never placed an order for this condition
Honestly, did she deserve this confusion?

There was no love no emotion
From the ones who contributed to her creation
She failed to grow due to physical repression
Of her tiny body due to compression
From the pressures of life that sought her decimation
Now she is motionless after dehydration
Tell me, did she really deserve this concoction?

Mothers and would be mothers
Fathers and aspiring fathers
Heed to the call of the voiceless
Listen to the voice of reason
Before you make a decision towards intimacy
Consider the results of your ecstasy
Be prepared for the outcomes of your fantasy
Because a child surely does not deserve your negligence