Poetry Corner with Kwesi BISSUE: Pampered For Life

They were the pampered daughters of Auntie Suzzie

All three

From Angel to Pearl to Sweetie

Raised inside a house gated with walls raised tall

Trained to touch nothing except to eat

Trained not to touch it…with decorated fingers and nail polish

 

Allowed to idle in decorated toes and nails

Blessed with nourished fingers and claws

Dressed in garnished toes and nails and many more

 

Served breakfast in bed

With spread of omelet on bread

Served a dinner of cakes and chocolates

Served by housemaids and handmaidens

 

From bedroom to bathroom to bedroom

Handmaidens who served garnished dishes

Housemaids who washed dirty dishes

Houseboys who laundered things

All things outer and inner

All things over and under

 

II

The young Sweetie grew up in beauty and sweetness

To shine above her older pampered siblings

For young suitors to notice her beauty and sweetness

For a date after another date to end in a courtship

 

Many courtships never ended up in a walk down the aisle

Sweetie never grew up beyond her beauty and sweetness

Never ever to convince her suitors

Of her matrimonial sweetness

For she failed in some matters

Even to boil an egg was a fumbling toil

This, her matrimonial chances it foiled

 

III

Pearl appeared better prepared for life

Reaping rich results from academic pursuits

Finding a suitor early in her academic journey

And sticking to him even with holes in his pocket

 

The young suitor saw

But ignored Pearl’s kitchen flaws

 

Things looked up

Till it was time to hook up

…for life

Then her kitchen flaws showed up

…as a future wife

 

Then his pocket holes enhanced their emptiness

For Pearl to doubt his marital usefulness

Then Pearl desired a fuller pocket

From a higher bracket

So Suitor abandoned Pearl for a compatible mistress

For such was his preference

 

IV

Angel bided her time to seek angelic intervention

In a short time angelic attention turned to her situation

Before she peaked she was picked to be a suitor’s complement

Before she petitioned for angelic intervention

She picked seed to be a parent

 

Before Angel could practice to act parent

Auntie Suzzie made one cold attempt

She seized her daughter’s daughter to feed

And to pamper

To raise in the four walls of doting

 

Auntie Suzzie now made a bold decision

To chase away Angel’s husband of little means

To fix her another husband of plentiful means

 

But that could not be after many moons have passed

As Angel waited for another angelic intervention

She made her way back into the house of gated tall walls

To bide her time

The second time

Inside the coop that pampered all three for life

 

V

And so it came to pass

That the daughters with decorated nails

Were pampered for life

And househelps with tortured days

Were prepared for life

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