While relaxing an afternoon, I thought of a number of events that took place in my life.
For some reason though, my thoughts ran on an event that took place between a man and his common-law wife.
The thing is, she gave him a present but instead of being happy, it stirred up strife.
Hence, instead of such a present, the man would have preferred if he were cut with a sharp knife.
The ‘wife’ said one day she went to visit another man that she liked, at his house. While there, they ended up in his bedroom and low and behold, they couldn’t resist answering to ‘nature’s call’, they fornicated. She said she was raped as he forced her to respond to ‘nature’s call’ which is, by law, called rape. When I asked why she didn’t put up a resistance or even scream, she said she didn’t want to disturb his household, as other family members, who knew her, were there. Instantly my inner voice intervened and said, “Flimsy excuse! Nothing but she wanted him to steal her ‘precious jewel’ a long time ago. How could she be so foolish to know that they both like each other and ended up at his place, in his room? I think she wanted him to rape her” I then dismissed the inner voice and continued to listen to the interesting story. She said when she reached home in the afternoon, her spouse came by, and again, she fornicated; she didn’t resist indulging in the act seeing she didn’t want him to think she was busy answering to ‘nature’s call’ with another, though that was the case. It means then that she fornicated twice on that day, with two different men.
When nature calls, a woman needs to put on the whole armor of contraceptive or face the consequences of being infected by diseases or attacked by pregnancy. Owing to the fact that she did not protect herself on those two occasions, she was likely to face the consequences and so it was; she was indeed attacked by pregnancy. Sometimes when a woman becomes pregnant she’s on top of the world but on that day, she felt as if she was on top of a cliff getting ready to take a leap. She became suicidal as she was uncertain whose sperm cell had bumped into her egg and made her pregnant. However, she didn’t search for too long as later on, she gave it to the more convenient person, her spouse. She thought it would have been embarrassing to give it to the man who ‘raped’ her.
Years passed and the spouse fathered the child. He then took up residency in another country and due to the unconditional love he had for his child, he filed for her so she could have similar opportunities like some of his other children. One day, during the last phase of the filing process, the dreams he had for the child became shattered. His ego also ‘crumbled’ because all his family members and friends knew how much of a father he was to the child. The DNA test result came out negative so it meant he wasn’t the biological father. The child was also traumatized because the plans she had could no longer be carried out; the plans of getting an opportunity to go abroad was no longer possible for her.
Time passed and both the father and child failed to have their ‘wounds’ healed. The father then thought it was best to cut off all contacts with the child and mom and that he did. The child rebelled against the mom but after a while, forgave her and they continued with their lives. The mom then decided to reach out to the other man, the real father, but it was to no avail. It means then that the child, at the time, did not know her real father and it would seem she wasn’t going to ever have the chance of meeting him.
If that woman could turn back the hands of time, like many of us who did things we are not proud of, I’m certain she wouldn’t have gone to the ‘rapist’ house, in his bedroom, alone. But, whatever is already done cannot be undone.
Be encouraged:
Be careful of what you do now, as later it can come back to haunt you;
Yielding to temptation can lead to an abomination.
