Forgotten Dairies
We Are All Shepherds -By Hassan Idris
All of us are shepherds and we would be asked regarding what we’re entitled to take care of it; a husband to his wife(ves), and children. A wife to her husband and children and children to their parents and so on. Men should know that women suffer during childbirth, taking care of children talkless of ten children alone without assistance from the men.
You have ten children from one woman and you’ve not been able to take care of your family even a bit. Your wife keeps struggling everyday to provide for the family but all you do is to come home, eat her food without asking her where or how she was able to provide for you on the table. All you do is to shamelessly sit at the Majalisa, watch young girls passing alongside your fellow shameless married men, gossip people and young girls passing. That’s not all, you and your friends sit there to boost on who has four wives is a real man with power and you’re feeling bad and not fully a man because you have one wife that you’re not been able to feed properly and you’re intending to add another wife to make you a strong man. You shamelessly follow young girls and divorcees about that you want to marry them. You even lied to them that you’re never married and you’re single.
All you know how to do is to lie and impregnate women but never how to feed and cloth them. What a shameless man you’re! You think that thing in- between your legs was only meant to impregnate your wife alone and not take care of her and your children? It’s high time you know that women are not property to have fun with and impregnate alone.
All of us are shepherds and we would be asked regarding what we’re entitled to take care of it; a husband to his wife(ves), and children. A wife to her husband and children and children to their parents and so on. Men should know that women suffer during childbirth, taking care of children talkless of ten children alone without assistance from the men.
When you married her, she was fully in her shape and looking so beautiful and sexy but the moment you get her pregnant and she gives birth you start complaining she’s loosing shape; she’s shapless like Amoeba, her breast is sagging and you’re tired forgetting how she was in her parents house when you went to marry her and that you made her shapeless like that. May Allah guide us aright.
Hassan Idris.
Sociologist & Poet.
ABU Zaria.
