I was just a little

boy of eight, with

my brown eyes

and red lips. Mama

said my smile

always strikes her

to be the sun,

“you will one

day be a man, to

some woman,”

I blushed.

what mama said

would have been

a reality, until

mama left home

on one cold

rainy day, leaving I

and big sister

who was sixteen

at that time.

Mama had taught

me well, so I know

what’s good

and what’s evil.

Sister never took

heed to mama’s

teaching. While I

tried to be good, sister

made us do evil, and

she said It was

biology practicals.

Each time mama

left sister and

I at home, sister

called me to

her room.

Hush hush

she would say

not a word about

this, as she bolts the

door behind

her.

"We will play a game

now" she would

say, looking at me

with eyes as beautiful

as the moon, eyes

that haunted me

in my dreams, eyes

that had too many

deep strange things

in them.

I never mentioned to

mama, cause sister

had threatened me.

“Your lunch will be

for the dogs” she

warned. I was scared

cause sister always

made my lunch.

I was like a free bird in

a cage. Sister and I grew

up that way.

Mama didn’t

know I had become

a man. Not to

another woman, but a

man to sister. I and

sister lived as a

couple when mama

was away, so I

thought sister was

perfectly made

for me. Until sister

fell in love with a man

as gentle as a

dove.

A man that would

never know about

me being sister’s

first love. I sat at

the front pew

to watch sister do

something good, while

I was lost in the

evil she taught me.

With tears

in my eyes I

watched sister

say the words “I do”

to another man.

But she made me

believe that I was her man.

Sister will make a

home with another

man, but sister

will always be my

woman. Joe my closest

friend, punched

me gently on my

shoulder “I can see

you are so close to

your sister, so sorry man”

He sympathized. No, she’s

my woman! I almost

screamed, but that was

our secret, and

the world

knew nothing about it.

I saw mama smile.

“One day, you will

find your soul mate”

she whispered into my

ears, as she wiped

the tears that was

uncontrollable.

I turned to see, sister

had taken all her vows,

and was kissing the

wrong man. “No sister no!” I wept.

I wish the Creator never

let I and sister do such evil,

the Creator was mad at us.

and while I cried like a baby,

sister smiled like an angel.