Polygamy
And Women
Polygamy, though permissible culturally
Is not the best thing
To happen to anybody
If, however, as a woman
You are ensnared in it,
How would you live it?
Would you follow the ancient
(And now deadly modernized) route
Of leaving the substance
And chasing the shadows?
Would you engage yourself
In such destiny busters
As quarreling with your rivals,
Setting your children against theirs,
Going for magical means
To win your husband to your side
Or worse still
Engaging yourself, praying for nothing else
But for God to help
Kill your rivals - envying?
Or would you, in humility and wisdom,
Do what Daddy Adeboye’s Mum did
When in a similar situation
In a polygamous setting?
Read what she did:
While the other women busied
Fighting their husband,
Daddy Adeboye’s Mom rather
Praised the man
For being ‘brave, kind, etc’
When her mates
Were mocking their husband
About his weaknesses,
Daddy’s mummy insisted on
Re-echoing, to his hearing, his strengths
His redoubtable exploits!
Proclaiming her husband
As the best man
God ever created!
Where the wives demonstrated
How tough they could be
To their husband,
Daddy’s Mum dealt lovingly
With her husband
Never challenging his authority!
For those reasons,
She was able to get
The best attention possible
From her husband
She was able to bring her children
close to their father
Instead of distancing them
Today, one of her own
Has ended up being a great pillar
in the world.
In humility too, he calls himself
Simply “a Pastor”
But Presidents, Governors, Ministers,
The high and mighty of society
Call him Daddy, Bishop, Prophet!
Christendom sees him righteously
A true man of God,
A man whose early aspiration
Was to become the youngest Vice Chancellor of a University
Has now been promoted by God
To establish a University!
If old Mum, Adeboye,
Had not displayed
A rare wisdom
In her polygamous home
It is possible
She would have lost this genius
To the bickering and infighting
That usually characterise
The polygamous family!
Women in polygamy,
Choose ye this day
Who your mentor would be
But I dare recommend to you
Daddy Adeboye’s Mom
And reap the benefits
Of her humility and wisdom
With which she tackled and untangled
The knotty webs of polygamy
She had stooped to conquer
Why can’t you?
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