MY MOTHER

"Mama, you called me yesterday but I was busy that's why I couldn't return your call. Sorry please don't take it to heart", he said in their local dialect which is Yoruba.

"Yinka! Yinka! Yinka! how many times did i mention your name, eerh? You were so busy that you couldn't return your mother's call. The woman that carried you in her womb for eleven good months Yinka! Almost a year oh abi? I don't blame you. It is that marine thing you call a wife that i blame, since you got married to her, you no longer being me goodies not even common gari on Christmas that oh, mama this is what I could afford. Manage it and prepare some sumptuous eba with egushi stew", she said with disgust.

"Mama, Mama, Mama, it isn't so and i won't tolerate you calling my wife names"

"You call that a wife?"

"What is she if not a wife, my wife for that matter?"

"I see she has brainwashed you as well, apart from using your man and her womb for rituals, i mean their annual rituals".

"She has done no such thing!"

"Shut your mouth jare! What do you know you living dead meat?"

"Mama i hope this is the last time you will call me to discuss such a thing. Have i made myself clear?"

"Omo mi, see what I'm talking about? Go in peace my son and let Ogun judge us"

FEW YEARS AFTER.

"It's been twenty three years now since we got married but still no child. Mama might be speaking the truth. Huh!"

"Huh! Ah! Erh! Wei! Eei! ", he laments and says " Hmmm, my mother. She's so... i don't know how to describe her"

"Why does Mama seem to have a grudge against me?", Sade Fajorum, Yinka Fajorum's wife asked her husband.

"How am I suppose to know the answer to that question?"

"I suppose you have the answer to my question since she's your mother"

"See, Sade iyawo mi, i love you and that's all that matters. With or without children, I will always love you"

"I've heard you ọkọ mi"

"You didn't tell me you love me too oooo"

"Pẹlè ọkọ mi, i love you too"

"Let's go inside jẹrè and do the usual", Yinka said to his wife.

"You this man, your body to dey sweet you", they laughed.