Dear Beloved,

Kill your mother early

Adunni Adeh
3 min readJan 7, 2025
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Kill your mother early

For she's going to be the woe of every hardship whip you get on your back in life

The tears of agony you would drink joyously

The brokenness in the sound of your laughter

It would be your mother's fault.

The reason you would be beheld with ridicule

The brashness you would feel in the harshness of societal norms

The scorn of everyone's mockery

The reason you would be ashamed to be called by the name you were born with

It would be your mother's fault

For your lack of empathy, apathy and even geography

For your appearance, awareness and even intolerance

For your rigidity, absurdity, audacity and even toxicity

For the whole of your being

It would all be your mother's fault

For daring to be

To dream

To hope

To live

For all of your choices

For the love you give and the ones you hold back

For your self-worth, self-respect and self-esteem

It would all be your mother's fault

You can trace it all back to the feet of your mother

For she dared to birth you

She went against nature to nurture you

So, kill your mother early

It is at her death that she gains freedom

And you get acceptance

For nobody dare blame your father for your being

It is all your mother's fault

If you become a nuisance or a menace

It would all be your mother's fault.

So beloved, kill your mother early.

I don’t like explaining my poems because I feel the readers should have their own meaning of it and I also believe it loses its essence in the explanation.

But, I really feel I almost explain this one in case you don’t properly see the beauty in what I tried creating.

You see, I was on the bed playing with my phone when my mind started spiraling the way its known to do and I started thinking how the world hypothetically revolves around a woman, how she unassumingly carry the success and failure of the world on her shoulders the minute she started to breathe.

How it is really a man’s world but it is infact nothing without a woman’s touch or “untouch” and shortly after, this phrase “kill your mother early” started ringing in my head.

I wrote this poem not to convey the actual power of a woman because I believe nobody really like to hear this story, but to maybe give a solution to the continuous audacity of a woman.

All this might be over if we’re only brave enough to do one thing…

Thank you for reading 🌚

Happy New Year, I hope I get out of my head more and put words to paper more than I did last year.

See you next time.

P.S: please when you choose to clap for my stories, can you hold your finger still on the clap icon until it gets to 50? Please?🥹

Thank you, you amazing human ❤️

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Adunni Adeh
Adunni Adeh

Written by Adunni Adeh

Chasing peace while writing everything and nothing all at once

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