WOMEN ARE DOUBLE-EDGED.

This reflective piece positions women as dynamic forces whose outcomes are shaped by the quality of what they receive. At its core, it advances a simple but enduring principle: investment determines returns. When women are given opportunity, trust, respect, and care, they transform these inputs into growth—nurturing families, building homes, sustaining relationships, and even shaping nations.

Through layered metaphors, the narrative underscores women’s capacity to multiply value. Seeds become harvests, resources become nourishment, houses become homes, and ideas become institutions. Names and wordplay are used deliberately to reinforce the message that fairness, kindness, and emotional intelligence are not optional extras—they are strategic imperatives for harmony and progress.

Conversely, the piece issues a cautionary note. Deceit, injustice, manipulation, or neglect do not disappear quietly; they return amplified. Where sincerity is absent, resistance emerges. Where respect is withheld, consequences escalate. Women, the poem suggests, respond with equal intensity—loving fully when valued, and opposing firmly when wronged.

Ultimately, this work frames women as mirrors of intent and conduct. Like the weather, outcomes are conditional. The message is traditional yet forward-looking: sustainable relationships and stable societies are built on mutual respect, emotional awareness, and ethical consistency. What we give determines what we receive.

WOMEN ARE DOUBLE EDGED.

(ỤMỤ NWANYỊRỊ ANYỊ).

Give a woman a seed
She will produce fruits,
Give a woman groceries.
She will produce meals.
Give a wise woman money
She will be turned to Honey.
Give a woman an empty house
She will build a very nice home.
Give a woman enough sperm.
She produces wonderful babies.

Give Comfort some comfort
Comfort comforts comfortably,
Keep Angela very very happy
She becomes a guardian angel.
Treat Justina justly and jovially
She gives you equal justice.
Treat Felicita finely and fairly
She frankly facilitates with you,
Give a woman the powerful notion
She builds a very powerful nation.

POEM OF THE CENTURIES

Do not gimmick with any Gịnịka
Least she turns to jealous Jezebel,
Don’t double-deal with any Doraty
She will deal with you like Delilah,
Never sharp practice on Dorcas
Least she turns to fierce Dọkasịa,
Show a woman you are wicked
She will turn a very good witch.
Give a woman double trouble
She will return trouble double.
Give a woman triple trouble.
She returns trouble fourfold.

Women are faces of the same coin
Easy to join as much easy to disjoin.
Their love is absolute and complete
Their hatred is absolutely complete.
Women need much more petting
Need proper petting before dating.
Women need much more bathing
Need proper bathing before bedding,
Women need sensational wetting
Sensational wetting before mating,
Women are controlled like weather
Their outcome depends on whether.