THERESA'S BAGGAGE

At 16, She experienced rape.

• Chronic Migraine.
• Arthritis.
• Hypoesthesia.
• Ulcer.
• Hypertensive.
  Her 17th birthday came with a baby's outcry.

Fifteen years later, She died of HIV.
She might have thought of wrapping me up and leaving somewhere along the roadsides, severally.
Despite any being with a dangling shaft in between those thighs.
Probably took a whole lot of process in acclimatizing and beginning to appreciate the different kind of radiance I was to her life.
But, I know Mum wanted to stay.