My Allegory will keep in memory strong reasons, <br />This epitaph will be emblazoned on walls as signals; <br />Them who feigned care for my cause will see <br />That I swore not in vain, <br />I saw the path clearly <br />I commune with my hearts on the consequences <br />The weigh, the burden, <br />Of a “better half” which is not better with me <br /> <br />The days of my tutelage in enforced bondages <br />The manner of a stepmother a schoolmaster, <br />The rivalry of bigotry in women <br />The enmity of selfishness <br />The contention of foolishness <br />Inconsequential matters employed to hurt innocence <br /> <br />The brevity of life, the passing time <br />The realities of death a mockery of our pride <br />The deception of men’s honour <br />The memory of a fool <br />The infidelity in godless women <br />The task of seeking a good wife <br /> <br />The hazards of little life in service to women <br />The mockery of aging experience in the sight of youth <br />The abandonment where greed leads blood away from home <br />The reflections of errors in glassy realities <br />The untamed lust to the desires of another <br />The wish for death of a long cold love for the sake of inheritance in women <br /> <br />I am a fool that I married not, <br />A fool that my children died in disaster (Plane Crashes, Accident, Sickness) <br />That all born were gone before my eyes <br />That I laboured for a despiteful insatiable hater <br />That i fathered a godless offspring causing the earth to mourn <br />Or that a criminal was born by me or a prostitute to serve the hunger of men ere the oath <br /> <br />I am a fool, <br />No child to call me father <br />No wife to tease me with the name “Honey” <br />None to watch over me in ebbing strength wearied by aging ills <br />A folly which I considered before the evil days <br /> <br /> <br />It was not for inability to bring forth <br />Or weakness in close door gym of bedfellow <br />Ask these daughters or their husbands who knew the days afore the oaths <br />This an unspoken reasons are answers to questions never asked<br /><br />macaulay akinbami<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/married-to-reasons/
