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Mmeso Inspires: Nipped From The Bud

Torn, shredded and pained…

I cursed them all.

What pain is greater than such?

Pain which the soul cannot bear

Heart burning with anguish…

Thought my world has ended, because I can’t see clearly through the mist of the tears that besieged my innocent soul

I had been nipped from the bud.

A flower I was, tender and delicate

Attracting both young and otherwise

My presence always leave a scent

Like that of a freshly plucked rose

Or the fragrance of an Arabic Oil

Until I was nipped from the bud.

This experience I hate to recount

This sorrow torments my soul day and night

My chance of survival was slim but I struggle in between, and yes I won.

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But, I had been nipped from the bud.

What shall I tell my love?

That my flower was nipped.

How shall I tell Obiajuru

That my pride was stolen

By some heartless cannibals

Alongside the stream, where my cloth was torn in shreds

And alone I was left to battle with shame and sorrow… that I wished I were never born.

I had been nipped from the bud.

How can life be so cruel?

To afflict a child like me with such a pain

Anguish too hard for my soul to bear

Sorrow which had splitter my heart into tiny debris

Growing me into a monster

Yes, monster capable of murdering monsters.

Lo, I had been nipped from the bud.

Pride which I had cherished for years

Was gone in a twinkle of an eye.

Flower which I had tendered with love has been smashed by some heartless beings.

Waiting for that special day when I will rightly give it to the one who truly deserve it.

Fantasies which I had always envisaged had turned to nightmare, I am sure it will haunt me forever.

I had been nipped from the bud.

Father Joseph said I should pray for their conversion.

Sister Mary said I should forgive

Nne said I should forget and weep no more…

Nna keep revisiting the police station for feedbacks.

Obiajuru might hear it someday and decide to leave or stay with me

Either ways, I am struggling to be strong again, to look the world straight into the face.

Many things don’t matter anymore

I pray I turn not into a monster…

Because I had been nipped from the bud.

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Mmesoma Nwobodo

Inspirational writer, creative writer, storyteller and law undergraduate student.

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