Twelve and fifteen, barely grown, barely seeing what life has to show... Responsibilities few, so hard to hold onto, yet they go for the ultimate one, the responsibility of a newborn.
Who shall instill morals and norms into the mind of the young? When it hasn't yet been taught to the one who now holds the title, mom.
The one they call dad, still caught up in his life of being a lad, mind not settled, still out courting, slowly she becomes a single mother... Poor thing.
Lessons she's supposed to teach, lessons she's yet to meet, so she does the best she can, all she's learned from playing with her dolls, thinking that alone will suffice the lessons to be taught to the newborn lad.
Baby starts crying, but a bottle doesn't work this time, an hour has passed, she keeps trying, but nothing helps, so she starts to cry herself.
Dials from her toy, the thing that once got all her attention, from her cellphone, the toddler's grandmother for help. Too busy for her as she was growing up, the things she's missed out on because of her daughter's birth, trying to catch up, still busy for her grandchild in need, daughter starts to learn life's lessons, life lesson indeed.
With nothing else to do, and her child turning blue, to the doctor she goes, with tearful eyes and hopeful thoughts. Doctors gone a couple minutes now, comes back with good news, said the child only needed burping. "How old are you?", "Nineteen Doctor", trying to sound more mature, would've believed too, but her ID says otherwise, just a fifteen year old's lie.
"We have a program here on Saturdays if you'd like, it's for mother's like yourself, to give you some insight." She takes up the offer, in a bid to make a change, but how long will she attend? Before her partying rage, before she takes up her mother's trend.
Children having children, a fast mirrored trend, when will this be corrected if not starting with ourselves? Lets show them how it's supposed to be done, for we ourselves are mere teens too, maybe not by age, but by readiness for such responsibilities to be true.
By P. Peddie
July 23,2014.
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