NEGLECTED

Farmer, I have some few words for you

Today, please let me have your attention

You have been coming daily to this farm

Your own this farm

But when it comes to harvesting

I think you do me no good

If you open your eyes widely,

You will know that I am the most resourceful person in your farm

My leaves can make the nicest of huts

My leaves can help you carry many things home

The bones of my leaves are used to clean your environment

Even the body of those leaves, when dried, helps to light your fire

My fruits do you many good

I feed you in many forms like a good wife,

Clear your eyesight like an effective optometrist,

Help wash your clothes like a good servant,

And like a doctor who cares, my balanced trip into your bloodstream

Can best regulate your cholesterol level

But never have you cared to look at me

Or quench my thirst in hard times

All you care about are the others.

The only time you care about me

Is when you see my fruits by chance

After I am old and fragile,

I am still not useless

Like a good lover, I give you comfort in drinking my blood

After all my blood is drained,

I feed you with the neatest and tastiest maggots to ever live

So why am I not first on your list?

Why is no attention paid to me?

Why am I left in many cruel whether conditions to fend for myself?

Even the strongest of beings sometimes need to be patted on their backs

Choose and dote on me

Even if it is once in my lifetime

Even if for nothing,

For all the toil and service you get from me

All my life.

Being loyal and loving without a look from

One’s object of interest kills faster than the bullet.

By amoafowaa