by Kennedy Opalo
Published on: Sep 29, 2004
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Type: Poetry

At the crack of dawn
You are already worn
Day in day out
You wake up to toil and moil
Digging the diamond hard ground

Your man is a drunk
Everyday he drinks
Then comes back home
To beat you sick

No career for you
Education is a luxury
Only for the lazy ones-your brothers

You have been reduced
Reduced to nothing but a breeding machine
Now life is but a struggle
A struggle to feed and nurture
You’re ever increasing brood.

As you lament in silence
I dare ask,
For how long shall it remain like this?

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