Frozen River

Her marriage was as all marriages were

  A canoe on a river with two paddlers

  Sometimes the current was with them, at other times against them

  Sometimes she paddles selfishly, at other times selflessly

  He is a good man, honest and loving

  She had no regrets

A friend came to her shop

  Would you be interested in an audition?

  A TV show is about to debut

  Diverse views are needed

  You are learned, a professional, eloquent

  Give it a try

  Her fellow paddler agreed

  She went out of curiousity

  It was bullseye

Within a year, she became famous

  Her face was on the cover of magazines

  She sat side by side with the rich, famous, renown and popular

  It rubbed off her

  One day in the dressing room

  She overheard her fellow presenters

  ‘How do we take advantage of this popularity?’

The show business is like riding a wild bull

  You will eventually get thrown

  Strike while the iron is hot’

  But how?

  In other climes she could do adverts, endorsements, and commercials

  Nothing of such has come her way

  People speak highly of her

  Talk is cheap

One of her co-presenters said she is shooting a commercial

  Another held a seminar graced by the high and mighty

  Another wrote a book

  Everybody seemed to be riding the wild bull to a destination

  Will she be a talking head forever?

  She came up with her own proposal

She met a governor

  He said meet me at so and so

  She went

  Receptionist said ‘Go to room such and such’

  She did

  She knocked, it was opened

  Governor teased her, drew her close

  What shall the daughter of eve do?

  Governor struck a match, her candle took it

  Hmm

Governor took proposal

  ‘I will do something about it by Monday’’

  ‘Call my Special Assistant on This and that’

  She got a cash gift of 200k

  It is part of the hustle

  Governor was suddenly very busy

  The SA was full of excuses

  She needed to double her hustle

She met another politician

  Senatorial Aspirant

  She was smarter

  Kept strictly official

  Her PR budget was in the millions

  He was talking big game

  He had the means

  ‘Meet me at my office

  Let’s finalize so I can cut you a cheque’

 ‘I am sorry, I cannot give you a N25M contract,

   you are just too inexperienced

  The job was slipping away...

  After all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the prayers!

  She changed tactics, he needed to be softened up

  She offered her water, he drank lavishly

She miscalculated

  He wasn’t a minute man

  He tarried

  She got tired afterwards

  She slept off

  A sudden pain on her face yanked her from sleep

  She heard the voices, another sharp pain, she became conscious

  It was HIS WIFE!

She was beaten blue black

  Her clothes were shredded, pictures taken

  She was rechristened Prostitute!

  Sh didn’t know how to start crying

  She was finished!

  The wife drove to the TV station

  Showed them the pictures

  Fire her or the pictures go viral

  She was sacked

Here she is

  A victim of impatience

  Another destiny broken by the screen,

  Broken by the street

  Her husband heard,

  He remained in the canoe with her

  His eyes shrunken by her defeat

  It was never the same again

  Her paddle had broken

  The river frozen