MOONLIGHT

WoRdInGs UPON BuRdEnS

Life is like a battle field were every humans feels for their own self but don't drown your dreams when it could become a reality for you.

It's a survival world, so we must paint it all good until we have a perfection to suit such situations and if your life is not hard for you, probably you should try not complaining about it all the time. Instead channel all those energy needed in making sure that whatever makes life so hard for you becomes your main tool for succeeding and don't forget to always put everything on positivity, always do.

"*PASSAGE*"

In this world, you will get to plow on a land. At times in another man land.

Love is for one just like you, Not a different attire But always a Tribaltic world.

You try to live within But what you see is far from home, Your strides makes you older. Drains every humanity out of you.

You keep trying, Trying with faith and hope. Some looses their way and get drugged by their misinterpretation of their agony, Loss, Pain, Sorrow,... Cheated, Betrayed, Blind and Never to see or feel Hope.

Laughter... Laughter everywhere even when they see you stumble. A million times they would laugh. No one believes you because you can't meet your expectations. You try to make them see reasons but your hopes seems to take long. No one is ever equally rich, we all have our bitter times and circumstances.

What you see in another, Breaks your heart, leaving your flesh captain of your actions. Placing you in torments you seek to cover with your whole justifications. In the world, the life's steps you thought about were basically to your favourable paths.

No one to hold you but you kept trying, Holding fast and never stop believing.

At the end, You may die on many people negativity but still have a little crowd that speaks positively about you. Whom always know your inside out. Appreciated your efforts and never lose the memories of you but always try to make a way or die trying on your believes which never states it been easy.

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Mr. chris sees His mistakes through, realise it and tries to make sure no one was walking in his foot steps. Not directly similar to his blunders but ones ability to recover what was lost.

LOST....(let's think for a while). We lose many things in life, either dear or un-dear to us. As long as it makes a meaning to our existence but the problem is "over doing it". We solve but exaggerate on to many solutions suggested by those we felt their words meant the last to us.

Benjamin hates to fade but poverty is always on bills. He was affected based on his own significance but getting the dream is short by words, In between those words lys a tale longer as time. You don't expect the rain to come on dry seasons even if it does there is always millions of reasons attained to ones purpose, to say, only the rain knew why it fell even when many transformations withhold such purpose. Only you knows the best solution to your problems but it never wise not to count your eggs before the hatch.

*Back in the farm*

"Father, what happened?"- koko asked in fear.

"It is none of your business to mingle into men talks but everyone as to do what I say... No one is to make any decision unnoticed".- He lashed out.

"Men?? Father, This is family and I don't understand why I should not know?"- she acts blank.

"Young lady, look here. You are not the presiding judge that we should table cases on. The only thing I see is you tabling our meals before us".

"Am so sorry father. You should both eat before it gets cold",- she said with a smile.

"Would you also tell us how to put the food in our mouths??",- He exclaimed.

(laughing from behind)- "soon she would be telling our anus how to dispose of it".

(All laughed)

"Brother ben, I don't like it o, can't I be involved in everything?? eh?".

"Atleast for now, not this one. (looking into the plate), Mother sends porridge again??.

"What is the matter? Not plenty enough? - mr.chris asks jokingly.

"Father ,uhm, plenty?. I am not a glutton",- He said sternly.

"(Whispering to him), Your usual is in the bag I brought".

"(smiles, facing his father) Father, I won't accept the fact you point me a glutton. I only eat to be able to work well".

"What if when you are not working?"- He asked mockingly.

"Yea, the IF is our disagreement.

(Both laughed)

"Am I left out in this too?- koko said with a motion of happiness.

(Both surprised)

"We thought you left already, Don't you have anything else to help out at home?.-ben questions.

"Well...No...",- She said pleading with herself to be told to stay".

"Let her stay ben, we could need extra hands in taking the few harvest home".

(She grabs a spoon, looking Ben squarely).

"Koko",- Ben calls knowing what is coming.

"Yes brother",

"Yunno chop for house?".

"No brother".

"Then consider your food no security guarantee",- He said smiling wickedly.

"I already made up my mind on that",-she laughs.

"uh uh....hmmm...hmmm".

*BACK HOME*

-AFTER FEW DAYS-

In his room, half laden with few worn out furniture, a center table and a bypass radio that functions on battery. partly covered with few curtains that looks quite shabby.

He sat on one of the chairs, Reading through a booklet were he jots down the lands he gave temporarily on cash just to make sure no additional amounts been taking. He as been saving much recently so he could afford a palm fruit grinding machine. He always wanted to collect his produce from the palm tree to process them himself and also make a living from it to support the family, maybe enough to help his children in any way he could.

"Good afternoon my husband. What makes you gloom in such a worried way?"- she said as she takes a place in the arm chair.

"Afternoon, nothing of no sense dear, your son discussed an issue with me on the farm few days ago and it punders me alot".

"Benjamin?"

"Yes. who else would love to stray alone…?- He tries to contain is bitterness.

"Am sure it meant well but what would be the issue that troubles you so much??

"He wants to leave for the city to look for a job so he could support the family."

"And that doesn't sit well with you?- she tries to make him say his feelings.

"( He as love her all his life and he knew her tricks to get words from him but he feels she won't understand him, probably not this time) Why should it??

"He is making a good choice to me",- she threw back honestly...

"Good choice? uh? you think the city is swimming on free food??".

"We could give him something to start with and besides staying with my brother is not such a bad idea".- she absent mindedly defended...

"(Surprised) your brother?? staying?? ( he tries to arrange the scenes himself) I don't get... ( Refuses to arrange the cards himself)."

(She knew she is in for a big one)

(Calmly) "Well my brother called earlier and told me about aiding someone in his place and I thought right now this might be a good opportunity for benjamin. ( She added slowly).

(Silently) (He stood up finding his way to the corner of the window, looking out at the hill of a plantation, slightly bringing his mind to his struggles when one has to put his whole aim at one shot and making sure it is realized only to discover it wasn't the aim achieved. One is battled by his weakness and hoping in his heart such mistakes will never resurface again). "Why do you want benjamin to go?".

"Not want dear, ( she gets close to him) I just see it as an opportunity but your decision in is final".

"Ben can't go, atleast for now".

"Why? ( curiosity swarm around her)".

"(Honestly) Ben is materialized by his friends and would forget the main purpose of been there".

"You saying He might loose his way?".

"Not really but distractions".

"(Sighs heavily) then who goes??

"Jane would for now, besides she is the eldest anyway".

"Benjamin is your first son, akpan uwueme, ( She said with little haste) How would it sit well with him?".

"I thought my decision was final??- he said with a pale smile".

"(Smiling) don't gst it work out all over you....

(Drags him to the room)

*SAME DAY*

(Watching out of the window in the empty class rooms, He tries to get a clear view of his siblings while they are at their play, His eyes caught jacob standing with a girl,smooching his ways again he thought. He wish he could pounce on him right now but it seems doing what he thought he was doing won't give him much of jacob attention. He liked it and wouldn't lose a moment of it, Looking back into the empty class room. His very good friend sits, intoxicated in what they knew they are doing).

"Why do you keep giving your brother such a frown each time you see him with a lady".- aniete asked.

"A lady is not what he needs right now".- threw back ben.

"But you have one for yourself! uh? - asked scornfully.

"(calmly), I try to trend quite carefully",- added with a wink.

"(abashed), And you think he is not trending safely? (looking straight at ben) like how na?…

"I can't say for him but too many different females is not good, something might just happen".-He added thoughtfully.

"Anyway, give the guy some space to enjoy himself and stop killing his appetite each time you show up".

"If you are part of the gang spoiling his head with those stupid fantasies, don't forget my father as a double barrel and for the record, no one should forget what I did to Ephraim".

"As it gotten to that??".

"No, am just taking precautions".-He said with a smirk.

"Symptoms of malaria is showing on you"- He threw back

"It is your uncle that as the head of a grass-cutter that will possess symptoms of typhoid"- He lashed back.

*Both laughed*

( There was a bit of silence for a while then aniete had to bring it up)

"Rock-town, Do you still want to leave for the city??( He knew ben was quite a determine person).

"Yes, made up my mind about it but my father keeps giving disapprovals to it"- He says with a sad tone.

"What are you even looking for there??

"To huzzle na, make some good cash and come back to rock this villa"

"And?? (He sees no good meaning in what he really wants but guess that he still wanted to put him in the dark)".

"You want me to swear for you, what is the "And" for (trying to imitate his friend) What else would I be doing in the city?".

"Ben, You and I had been in this village all our life's and na even here dem drop us from heaven but you know people are making it anywhere not compulsory it is the city".

"Shey na farm I go die put, would I keep watching my younger ones grow with no good educational immunity, papa just born us like fowl for house"- He tries to hide his emotions.

"(laughs, and realized why he was bent on going to the city) No worrie ko, una no go become fowl again (laughing)"...

"Which kind eye talk be that one (laughing) Seriously (with a sad look) I just want to leave this old form of life style just to make my life a little meaningful".

"(Approaches him) I can't say if it is good or bad but I always come to hope for the best".

"It would benefit everyone and make something worthwhile...(he tries to make himself believe he wasn't making a wrong choice)".

"(touches his shoulders) Everything is worthwhile but well like I said, people are making it anywhere and not all making posses that ingredients of satisfaction".

"(Looks at him) When you have money, what other satisfaction is lacking there?"

"The one we apply no sense in it!!!".- He said knowing it hurt his feelings.

"A lot of sense is in this one as far as I am concerned. You want me to be here doing all of this (pointing at what they think they are doing), Performing routines like it is a ritual rites. I refuse to die here or less worse die a poor man!!".

"(With a smirk on his face) I can't be the captain of your ship, I am only been reasonable with the whole aim".

"(He lashes) Reasonable uh?! I know your grandchild will open his eyes to see you here in this village".

"(He knew if he pulls one more string, Ben could pounce on him, He tries to avert) Is it not a good thing?".

"(He tempts him) If I am that grandchild, I will curse the living daylight out of you".

"(He knew ben better than anyone) At least that sounds like repentance to me??"

"(Laughing) Repentance from poverty...?? (He knew this hurts)

"(laughs) (He wasn't going let him have it) You have started again ...Ben okwo?

"(This is what he wanted) Your uncle!! (Pounce on him)