MYSTERY OF LIFE
“Oh Lord,” Lola soliloquized in a
state of solitude. “I have waited so long for this!” She lamented ungratefully.
Mrs Lola Adegoke, a 39-year-old mother of four who was yet to conceive a
male child, had been faced with enormous unbearable matrimonial pressure that
she was forced to speak to her creator just like an ingrate would. No doubt,
her 10-year-old marriage to her childhood friend Mr Seun Adegoke had made the
said young man to see life as an unfair situation, thus each moment of his
‘miserable’ life was preoccupied with agony and unbridled emotional seizure.
His unending sad mood became so annoying that one could wonder if a female
child didn’t worth it, or what actually was in a male child that couldn’t be
found in a girl child.
“Please, my Lord,” she continued. “Just give me a male child so that my
husband would be happy.”
She was actually seated on her matrimonial bed, her face faced upward
directly toward the room ceiling.
“Just a male child, Lord.” She landed, gushed out tears.
Few seconds later, Seun walked in, sat close to her. “Lola,” he called,
without minding the fathomless tears on her face. “I have a plan.” He hinted.
She stared at him, surprised. She wondered if the situation had gotten
to a point that her supposed hubby would never mind her sorrowful physiognomy.
“What do you mean?” She managed to utter.
“I have been thinking.” Seun rode on, staring at the cemented floor.
“Thinking of what?” Lola enquired, quickly wiped out the tears with her
bare left hand.
The pink single wrapper she tied up to her chest level could sense that
all wasn’t well going by Seun’s countenance.
“Something very important.” He answered vaguely, continuously tapped his
right leg that was in a brown lather slipper on the floor.
“I am all ears.” Lola informed apprehensively, wore a weird face as if
her mind could absorb any news regardless of its gravity.
“Well,” the sad looking Seun
uttered. “I have decided to bring in another woman.”
“In this house?”
“Yes, of course.”
“Besides,” she retrogressively
said. “What kind of woman are you talking about?”
“A second wife, of course”
“Second wife…?”
“You heard me,” Seun frankly
cleared the air, paused. “Isn’t it clear you can’t give me a male child?” he
asked rhetorically.
Lola gushed out tears again.
“This is not a matter of crying.”
He thought aloud. “You just have to see reason with my intention.”
Therein, she wept bitterly and helplessly.
“You have been nice to me since I
got married to you,” he confessed. “But, ten years isn’t ten days, neither is
it ten months.”
There was absolute tranquility.
“We can’t continue like this,” he continued. “Can’t you see?” He landed,
looking into her pitiable eyes.
He attempted to wipe her tears with his hands. “Leave me alone.” She
ranted, stood up and walked away.
One week later, Seun tied the knot with Titi. Practising polygamy was
something he forbade right from childhood, but he had broken that vow.
Those who knew his person from Adam wondered why he couldn’t wait for at
least a little more time. Besides, they were of the opinion that a woman gave
birth to what her hubby inserted into her womb.
Funnily enough, four years on, Titi couldn’t conceive even a child let
alone the awaited gender. It was like a mirage to the entire Adegoke family
including Seun’s aged parents who persuaded him to pick a second wife.
Consequently Titi accused her sister-in-law, Lola of being responsible
for her purported barrenness; the abrupt accusation aroused uncontrollable
uproar in the family that Seun got estranged with her (Lola), though she
alongside her children was still living in the same house with him.
Prior to the aforementioned estrangement, Seun had gotten married to
another lady, his third wife. The separation occurred barely three weeks after
he brought in the third woman, Funmi who was already impregnated by him before
the marriage.
Fourteen days after the misunderstanding between Seun and Lola, the
latter was confirmed pregnant for her fifth child; no one could imagine that
the former was still sleeping with her having gotten married to two other
different women. The intriguing game men play.
Subsequently, Seun overlooked Lola’s pregnancy with the view that she
would still deliver a baby girl when due, thus he was only mindful of Funmi’s
pregnancy. What she (Funmi) needed to do was just to name her want and it would
be delivered at her doorstep within a twinkle of an eye. The scenario proceeded
unabated that Lola couldn’t bear the humiliation any longer; her four female
children were her solace as the intimidating circumstance lingered.
Eight months on, Funmi the third wife successfully gave birth to a baby
girl. The news was a big shock to Seun who anxiously waited at the hospital’s waiting-room
prior to the childbirth. The awful reality, which befell a nervous wreck on his
person, kept him speechless several days afterwards. 1987, which was the year
of the incident, appeared to him like twenty years back, 1967 precisely, when
he lost his two siblings to a road carnage in broad daylight.
As God would have it, one month later, the heavily pregnant 43-year-old
Lola delivered a bouncing baby boy. Her estranged husband, Seun couldn’t believe
the news regarding the mystery of life the moment it was brought to him in his
matrimonial home. He hastily ran to the hospital, which was situated very close
to his home, in only knickers and bathroom slippers to embrace his ‘lovely’
wedded wife whom he had forsaken for a longtime. Amazingly, on her part, Lola
forgave him as soon as she caught sight of him in the distance while in her
hospital bed.
At this point, Titi who couldn’t fathom the miracle was still
purportedly barren. She needed not an interpreter to notify her that her
presence or services were no longer needed.
Thereafter, Seun outrightly divorced the makeup wives, Titi and Funmi
having renewed his matrimonial vow with Lola. However, he promised he would be
remitting alimony to the latter for the upkeep of her baby girl till she grew
up.
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