**RIVER DROWN: (Life fiction) WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE IF THE WORLD...

RIVER DROWN

My River drown!
My River drown!!
All my plights I'm sure you know.
My beauty over the years had grown soar,
The fruits within are unripe.

_The stanza still x-rays the supplication of the woman. Shes undoubtedly sorry for the mistakes of the past. However, she cannot turn back the hands of the time because the child had drown the very day she threw it into the river. Her present predicament is well known to the child's spirit, some of which are: aging, fading beauty and the inability to conceive as she's at her menopause stage; nonetheless, the child can't help her either. As such the **fruits** (the eggs in the ovaries) have all matured but are unripe. How could she ever be happy in life when the joys of motherhood is denied her?. _

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My River drown!
My River drown!!
where hast thou gone now?
Look twice these weak- whimper waiting arms
to do unto thee no such harm.

_Here in the lines above, its noticeable that the woman is tired of calling the child for that long without getting any response. Hence, she asks a question I would consider RHETORICAL, so as to know where the child's spirit is. Her hands are too weak. These hands represents her womb which has refused to hold or keep any conception even after being married to another man for many years. She attempts to promise the child's that she would do the child no harm. However the child's' spirit is not convinced that she is calling with a good motive._

My River drown!
My River drown!!
Come merry now on this great feast.
I sure now will not forsake thee,
forsake me now not.

Remember, that prior to this time, the young woman was dejected and snubbed by her parents,her boyfriend and the society, an act which led her into the act. Shes repentant and thus call on the child's spirit to come and feast with her. Note that this call although is an earnest one, it's also luring and tricky to get the child's attention. This the content of this stanza is similar to Wole Soyinka's Abiku where the poet personae calls on Abiku to come in and stay with the household or return to the boa-bar tree where thy kindred spirit please. _ She goes further to assure that she will definitely not forget it and also prays the child will not forsake her.

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A promise made needs to be kept. Heres the concluding part of the poem entitled River Drown. Your comments would make me better.

**RIVER DROWN: (Life fiction) WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE IF THE WORLD PUSHES YOU TO THE WALL**

RIVER DROWN: (Life fiction) WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE IF THE WORLD PUSHES YOU TO THE WALL