The Dreams Of My Mother – Episode 28

Episode 28

Skyby: “It is alright, you got me now. Just tell me everything, don’t hide things for me. I really, really like you, your body is amazing, you make love with your soul and I have never had someone like you before” he said and rocked her. Tania slept off in his arms, when she woke up, he was making a call and whispering.

When Dayo saw the man at the door, he was paralyzed with fear, against the light of the moon, he looked like an apparition.

Dayo: “Please sir, let me go, I am just a boy without parents, my mother died giving birth to me and she begged that I become a medical doctor. I fled my daddy Gberan’s house because aunt Tania wanted to kill me. I know this because I saw the look in her eyes before she swerved the car and hit the bridge. Even mummy Bella doesn’t like me, neither does Ken. Everyone hates me but for my grandma, Madam Lagos. She is the reason I came to Oshogbo. Please don’t kill me” he pleaded. The man beamed a torchlight at him and in the glare, Dayo saw that this was not the man he had met at Obalende park in Lagos. It was the medicine man. He opened the door wider and beckoned on Dayo to leave. He had never used a motherless child for sacrifice, they were bad for blood sacrifices anyway. He told himself that he would explain this to his friend when he came back from seeing his family inside the village.

Dayo ran as fast as his legs could carry him, even though he did not know where he was running to. Soon he found himself inside the bush, and this was where he fell on the dew soaked forest floor and cried.

Dayo: “Oh God please I am tired, just take my life. Mother, I am sorry I cannot fulfil your dying wish, it is too hard. I don’t even know where I am, or how to leave this strange place, how then do I become a doctor” he cried, until he slept on the forest floor. He had a dream and he saw his mother. She was beautiful and she was clothed in a gown and a hijab covered her head.

Khadijat: “My son, you are just as handsome as your father. You should not have run away from home”

Dayo: “I was going to be killed. I don’t know what I did to aunt Tania, she wants me dead and I don’t know why” he said, not the least uncomfortable with talking with the woman whom he had never seen before. He instinctively knew that this was his mother.

Khadijat: “Don’t you believe in God? He put you in my womb for a reason, and even when he took my life, he spared yours because he created you for a purpose, did you think really any man could take your life when God does not permit it?” she asked.

Dayo: “I was scared. But that is all past, I don’t even know where I am, any idea?” he asked, sporting a smirk.

Khadijat: “You will have to do this on your own, and don’t ever ask God to take your life, it sounds ungrateful. No matter how hard, always remember the dream” she said, and he was startled awake.