The Child's Father

I stood in front of the hospital with tears in my eyes. I didn't know where to go nor who to ask for help. It was just my mum and I, it had always been just the two of us... No friend, no relatives.My mum had me at a very young age out of wedlock and had told me my father abandoned us, he didn't even stay long enough with her to see me as a baby.My mother left home out of shame because she kept on receiving insults from her relatives and neighbours based on she getting pregnant without a husband. My mother left Ogun State and came to Jos where she wasn't known to avoid further embarrassment from her neighbours and relatives and hustled on her own to make sure we were fine. Whenever I asked about any relative, she told me they were not important and that we only needed each other. She said I completed her and she completed me; we were enough for each other... That's all that mattered. And after she'd said that, I'd smile and hug her.