BORN-BY-MISTAKE

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BORN-BY-MISTAKE
 

Born-by-mistake -
the unchristened name of a child: a great many
April bloom
He had just died
the product of Newton's law - the third order
the progeny of two equal but opposite worlds
birth on the day the sun turned bloody scarlet red
into a distance period long gone
bred in an epoch of a great recession
and of austerity measures
when men lived like beasts on all four
tearing sinews from the decaying bones of one another
because that was what the fuss was all about
Papa wanted one
Mama wanted more
so they didn't see eye-to-eye at night
yet gametes spin like mix tapes on one lonely morning
And there lived a baby born-by-mistake
mama heart fluster like gentle butterfly wings
papa heart flew to his throat like someone choked to death
'how could she?' he laments
yet they never saw eye-to-eye as living becomes an enduring tragedy
An allegory filled with bitter spats between the two world.

Six years -
flew by like shooting stars
a crawling toddler morphed into a walking boy
with red dreads locked to his nascent cerebral
like a Rastafarian
left handedness
though he was stunted in the progression of his being
not so much by the hardship of an economic recession
but because this young leaf was never nurtured to be
the destiny of a genius that once lived
every nutrient of parental love snatched from his suckling hungry mouth
born-by-mistake
he was like a dog spurned by his very owner
kicked in the face by everyone else in the street
still he wades through murky and treacherous waters of societal acceptability
A frigging orion he was - a fighter
high in the blood red April skies
vulnerable to every experiment tech that cut through the sky like shrapnels
shot at the very core of his heart dancing with the cloud: a child
sentenced unjustly to a chalice of death's cocktail at six

A fallen hero crashing into the hard earth crust
Down six feet below the cackling voice of a newly born
As the priest chants - from dust you came
from dust you return
Never to be again
A born-by-mistake.

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