Thanks. How is my son in-law?
Iyi Eweka
At 08:17 AM 10/19/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Father in-law,
>Here's a copy. Sorry to be sending it to the entire list. I couldn't find
>your email address. I'm also forwarding the birth announcement for those
>who may not be aware of the context of this beautiful poem.
>How is my daughter-in-law? Give my love to the family.
>--Emilie
>
>I am happy to inform you all ,that I was initiated into the Grandpa and
>grandma club of the world, in the early hours of Saturday 21st of July 2001,
>by my daghter, Osaru Iyi-Eweka, who gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.
>The baby weighed 9lbs. 4oz. and was 21 inches long. They are both doing
>very well.
>
>GRANDPA
>
>Trepidations!
>Does the baby move?
>Sensations!
>Like the old move,
>A pregnant wife
>A pregnant daughter.
>A thought with a strife.
>A thought also bitter.
>
>This is the first daughter.
>This is first grand daughter.
>Like yester years' anxiety,
>As mother lays in child birth,
>Torn between life and death,
>With birth pains all over.
>And man paces up and down.
>
>Incoherent voices presses
>Frightening thoughts races.
>Palpitations at the buttocks.
>And " what do you call it "shrinks,
>As monitors survey the old and new life.
>The long sleepless wait.
>At the end of a blade,
>A baby echoes her first cry of life.
>
>A new life is born,
>Into a world torn,
>With hunger, death,
>Food and life.
>Contradictions galore!!!
>It is a beautiful world baby.
>Rose! Rose!! Agharese!!!....
>Dead silence!
>You are a grandma.
>Deadlier silence!!
>Er....I too, am GRANDPA.
>
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