Poetry Corner with Kwesi BISSUE: Mister and Missus Barreness 

It was after eight marital years

The cries of the newly birthed from the nearest window

Reminded them of their only headache

…of their childless state

The concern was naturally yearning for a minnow

…for raising a minor

Usually mutual between Mister and Missus

 

“How did we arrive here from where we began?”

It was after twenty something scholastic years

When the bells rang for a couple to say I do

The catwalk was natural

Usually rehearsed for this day

And the day had much to do

To endure the ever-delaying bride-to-be

To tolerate the ever-deafening donno,donno

 

“But why did we arrive late from when we began?”

It was after the early years

To firm our feet on the ground

To feel so set to settle down

So the childless project was mutual

Naturally feeling to begin on a good footing

Mutually keeping our distance from conception

Artificially insulating our capabilities for procreation

Until we were really ready to hug a young life

 

“So how did we arrive here from how we began?”

It was after those make-believe barren years

It was after trying and testing and trusting

Cooperating and coordinating in copulation

Testing and trusting month after month

And trusting conception to be natural

Mutually expecting a foetus to be punctual

But waiting and anticipating only gave birth to frustration

 

“But how did we arrive at conceiving the concept of a conception

…so close to natural?”

It was after weeks of complaining and lamenting

Crying over a home lacking babyish noises

Desiring to hug an offspring bearing resemblance to Mister or Missus

But trying to hide our crying and daily frustrations

The conclusion then was mutual but unusual

 

“So how did we achieve a conception of an exception?”

It was after weeks of roaming and wandering and searching

Wondering if any was available and willing to kidnap

…and to inseminate

When he was found, he was an inhabiting loner in his cottage

He wondered why

Why such a lovely lady would choose the likes of him

When she found him, she had only one aim

…only one wish

 

“Do to me what you will

For I am taken for a barren

What happens after all is done

Will not be your burden”

If only he knew this

If only he could see through her disguise

 

“But how long did we have to wait

To receive news of a conception?”

It was after three months of kidnapping and napping

Three months of missing the paining menstruation

Three months of incubating a growing living

It was after this that she absconded

This, not at all mutual

 

“So how did we receive a conception of an exception?”

The joy was mutual, as usual

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