Botched motherhood
July 11, 2012 § 1 Comment
A poem by Tiro Sebina - featured in Reproductive Health Matters May 2012
You may not want to hear
About a woman who died
In labour in a hut
You may not want to hear
About an expectant woman
Who perished aboard
A donkey cart
On a bumpy road to an apology
Of a health post
With neither doctors on site
Nor drugs in sight
You may not want to hear
About an expectant woman’s fatal fall
Off a rickety bike
Pedalled by a drunken man
Terrified of Emang Basadi
Concerned about his name
Appearing on the birth certificate
You may not want to hear
About a woman who expired
Without knowing
She was targeted by grand visions
And millennium schemes
You may not want to know
About a woman too hapless
To grace dinner-conferences
Held in her name
At exclusive venues
Who wants to know
About the bungled chaos
Of a dead mother
[...] 4.50 if you just want to hear the winner being announced and hear her poem). And a powerful poem Botched Motherhood, by Tiro Sebina, recently appeared on The Berer Blog (which is a great blog to follow if you are [...]