Already, I was coming undone, like a hastily tied scarf coming loose, on the ground before the owner is aware of it. - Ayobami Adebayo

The road stretches before us, shrouded in a darkness transitioning into dawn as it leads me back to you.

there is no god like a mother

It would take a while for me to realise that each of my children had given me as much as they took. My memories of them, bittersweet and constant, were as powerful as a physical presence. And because of that, as a bus bore me into the heart of a city I did not know, while my last child was dying in Lagos and the country was unraveling, I was not afraid because I was not alone.