Clean hands, a sanitised kitchen,
Let the cooking begin, it’s time for some fun.

Fresh from school the ingredients are ripe, and the oven turned on.

It’s hot, no one is looking, why are these clothes still on?

Vanilla dripping from the nether and a stiff, steady upward, surplus of milk supply from the seed reservoir, urn and rod are ready to get it on.

Forget cooking, how about some baking, naked, kneading and pounding is more fun!

Two portions of erratic hormones
A good measure of unregulated emotions

Add the lack of insight, of a developing brain
Mix well in the curious minds of teens

Thrown off by the disruption of routines
And structure of their learning institutions.

Heat set on high by the corona fever, in the pandemic of COVID lockdown.

In a baking dish of parents absent in the gap of complex emotions.

Lined with challenging rebellious teens
Who have no sense of consequence and a mind of their own.

The dough rises to meet every thrust with agonising desire, untold pleasure, letting out an aroma of blissful moans.

While blowing the load with reckless abandon, groaning, grunting and heaving, taking in the tantalising sweetness of satisfaction.

For nine months in the oven
Regular prenatal checks on the buns
They will come with a lifetime of needs cooked to perfection.

Served with stigma, they go down well with shame, abuse and lack of compassion.

Spotlight on the girl, no due credit to all the contributors who made a success of this fruitful mission.

When everyone who brought the heat scoots,
She stands alone in a blazing hot kitchen, bun in hand, facing life with not many an option.

So, there’s a list out, of all the girls with buns in the oven
But where’s the list of those that put the yeast in the dough, will they rise to the task, will they raise the buns?

Their knobs turned up the heat, repeated rhythmic strokes of guilty pleasure turned on the oven!

Why are they not sharing the spotlight of shame? They shared on the forbidden fun!

When in future society strip the girls of dignity and respect with single mom labels, the sperm donors, will the labels also be stuck on?

Is it fair on the girl, that judgement, society serves a double portion?

©️ C Akui 2020/06/19

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