There's a lady I've known from when I was a little
child. I heard and read so much about her and as
a child, I innocently fell in love with her. I don't
know if she ever got to know about my feelings for
her. The feelings lasted far longer that I could have
imagined. I never cared about her age, she was
my senior by some decades, yet I loved her non-
stop. I never would have known that someday,
somehow, my love for her would ever be shaken,
but that is exactly what has happened.
She's taken ill as of late, well it's been a while now
since she took ill and there seem to be no cure or
help in sight. Her beauty is all gone due to the
number of men that went into her, by lying and
deceiving her.
On top of that, she's been used and abused by
those whom she had given everything. Those
whom she had trusted to be her guides due to her
inability to use her poor eyesight took advantage of
her and had their ways with her again and again.
Lies about her abound, and they seem to come
from all sides. Some said she is a lady who is
easily trapped by 'sweet mouth' and others say
she goes 'chasing' after men of no repute nor
means. It just breaks my heart to see my once
envious lady become a shadow of herself. I no
longer go to her place to hear her reel out one
story after another like I was used too when I was
a child because she I found out that she even lied
to me in one of such stories where she said I was
a leader of tomorrow. She never told me there was
no tomorrow.
Maybe, if we had joined our hands together, we
could have helped her heal and make her strong. It
now seems too late to salvage her from the path of
destruction she has found herself.
She's well over 56 years old, way too young to die,
but could anyone stop her from her suicide
mission, given that she is reputed for feasting on
her children to please the wishes of her abusers?.
Her name is 'Nigeria', a lady I used to love, can't
tell why I am suddenly not finding her appealing
like I used to when I was a child. Those days
where the periods I was so proud of her. I don't
know how she found herself where she is now and
I don't know who could go in and bring her out of
the dark room she hides her once-beautiful-but-
now-ugly-face. She seems only appealing to those
who go into abuse her like some reprobates do to
some deranged women in the dark- leaving them
with children who never get to experience the love
of a father or that of a mother.
Oh Lady Nigeria, see what has become of you.
source: www.ojojorok.com/2017/07/the-lady-i-used-to-know-and-how-she.html?m=1
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