Daniel Inspires

RECOILING           By the loom of things, mom had to go back. The crowd was eager to hear moms part of the story. The mood was so overwhelming. The crowd was getting bigger and bigger. All the same, she was allowed in. The sisters could not comprehend what was going on. Dad and mom were so in love when both left for Kitale the previous year. The thing that dad was mistreating mom was something one had to make a second thought on before believing.            Breakfast was serve, grandma was all over her trying to have a glimpse of what made mom arrive that early. Mom explained everything. She managed to convince them at the end. Grandma could not believe it. How can all of them be this mean? Mom was a woman every man wanted to marry in the village. Were it not for her ego, mom would have been a mother of several by then. Mom was so tired from the trip. What she thought of at the moment was what the in-laws will do next after realizing she was not a part of the any longer. B

PARTING SHORT           Situations could not allow mom to stay longer. The negativity she faced was so intoxicating for the young mom she was. Mom had to leave. Early one morning, at around 5:30 she set out on a journey. A journey she was determined to do once. She was done with this. The ridicule, contempt and disrespect from the in-laws was more than she could bear. She was loving though to me and Moses of course. She did bathe the both of us, changed the diapers and breastfed us. Her boobs were dripping she narrates. She then silently closed the door behind her and left. The morning was chilly, birds chirped from the many trees that fenced the homestead.           She met a few early risers  of course. Mum is shy and was even more shy back then. She walked herself all the way to the central business district. As early as it was she could manage to get any form of mechanical transport. The buses were few those days.               The bus she boarded was almost full when she arr