Photo by Leonardo Luz
I came home for weekend to see if I can make ends meet but I ended up meeting some warriors at home that almost shifted my kidney to my neck.
You know I use to hail nursing mothers because at some point, it looks to me as though they are using magic but they aren't. My elder brother's little boy was sleeping in the room and I was pressing my phone in the parlor, the biggest crime I committed was letting his mother go out to deliver the guinea-corn juice she told me she wants to go and give to someone. I should have told her to carry the baby along with her but that didn't came up my mind and maybe it's because I needed to learn something very important during this weekend. Well, even if I remembered to tell her to carry the baby along with her, it will look some kind of awkward that I want her to go out with her sleeping baby while she can easily keep him at home together with his brave and industrious uncle.
Some few minutes she left the house that was when this boy knew it was time for him to wake up and teach me some learnings I needed to know before I fall into the shoes properly tomorrow. Wait a minute! Does this means this is how my tomorrow is going to look like? Oh my goodness my therapist should get ready for numerous visits then. My nephew refused to give me rest that evening dear friends. It was his cry that made me noticed he has even woken up from sleep. I rushed into the room to make peace with this gentle man but no way! No way!!
I picked Dominion up and was trying to make him keep quiet but nothing I ever did was worthy of making him to stop crying. I raised him up and was singing some lullaby for him to sleep but no way! I began to get frustrated but I felt hope again to make him stop crying when an idea popped up in my mind, I was feeling heat a little and thought maybe the boy is also feeling heat since he is on a shirt at that particular moment. I don't know if it was the frustration that made me think like that though but read on! Let's see what happened next.
I hurriedly removed the boy's shirt from his body so he will receive some fresh air and maybe stop crying but it amazed me how this boy started screaming and crying instead of just crying as he was initially. I quickly put back the shirt because I thought I had offended him by removing his shirt but all effort yielded no positive results.
I continue acting movies with Dominon in the parlor, I will keep him on the ground, raise him up, lay him down so maybe he might sleep but NO WAYY!
I began calling his mum's line and it was switched off, that was when I realized that my faith is being tested and I don't know if I will pass that exam because it looks like the most difficult exam for me to write at that moment. I looked at Dominon right in the eyes and he was staring at me in a cold silence as if there was a communication between my eyes and that of Dominion's. I even began to feel like a super hero already thinking I communicated with him to keep quiet using my eyes but boom.... Dominion bursted into tears again. At that particular moment, I had nothing to do again, he is just a little boy and I can't get mad at him because it will look unreasonable for me to. I held him helplessly as if tears will drop from my eyes then his mother came in.
I didn't tell the mother anything I was just observing what she will do that the baby will keep quiet. Immediately she collected him into her hands this boy just went mute at once. I opened my eyes widely and was looking at the both of them. Is that all? I asked myself. Was that not a magical something that occured here? I didn't tell the mother anything about how the boy dealt with me, I just entered my room and was wondering how a one year old boy wanted to make an adult man like me (a brave and industrious uncle for that matter) cry but thank goodness God came to my rescue. I guess I won since at last I didn't cry and he kept quiet too, maybe we would have find out who will cry the best or better still who is the baby amongst us. At least I will start greeting nursing mothers differently now because they are all a heck of heroes I didn't know this much all this while.
