I WAS ONCE HERE by Chines Zoe

Tell Nkpuluma that it was in my vision also to be her husband.
I too, fantasized of walking down the aisle with her to be joined in wedlock.
Tell her that making babies and building a family with her was also my life ambition. 
And I saw her in everything in my future until now.....

Tell my parents that.....

I..... I...... I.....

Well tell them I don't know what to say to them about this.

Tell my siblings and those who look up to me that making them proud was my goal, a goal I cherished and walked towards until now.

Tell the mourners by the gate that it's nothing, it happens everytime, hundreds of thousand times a day.

Tell the tradition that I'm no abomination and shouldn't be treated like one undignified. Tell them I got dignity, and there's dignity in taking decisions too.

Tell the world that I'll almost say I'm sorry, but sorry will mean I regret this journey, but it's no regret I feel, it's bliss in its purest form.

Send a message quick to them that they may smile and grin and well when there face turns tell them all I say to tell them.
Because this bottle in front of me will take me abroad.

They should know.
I was once here.

It's me!

Chines Zoe