Musical Chairs

                   Musical Chairs
                     by G. Amadi

Time was when
Father the dining-table head chair
had,
note on the wall
behind him,
"God's Head...",
said.

Mother never, then,
not even
once,
on
the dinning table head chair
sat.

"God's Head..." note on the wall
there stays
till this
day,
long after
dad onward
passed!

But not any more
in today's
'worlds',
by rich or poor
defined,
do mothers 
by those words,
fit and proper,
stand!

If liberated women,
forever wishing on an omen,
their way
had, pray,
where you, as family head
not by a rich man
fathered,
on the dining table,
more to them
like a staple
of musical chairs, sit,
to eat,
or, some note, to jot,
matters not.

A select few even
that stance
further justifies,
modern day's
irreconcilable meal times
citing, but
if unconvincing that sounds,
scowls,
"What's in a chair,
after all?",
growls.