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Keeyra Writes✍🏽 Nigeria A freelancer @ Federal University Oye Ekiti.
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THE LAST SEED. 🤰🏽💆🏽‍♀
<p><span style="background-color: transparent;"><strong>THE LAST SEED: </strong></span><strong style="background-color: transparent;">LASTBORNS🤰🏽💎</strong></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;"><strong><br/></strong></span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Ever wondered why the word Alpha and Omega always get stuck together?</span></p><p>Don’t expect the answer from me though 😅... I have zero idea 🤭.</p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">But in this context, it makes sense:</span></p><p><strong>Alpha</strong> = the firstborns.</p><p><strong>Omega</strong> = the lastborns.</p><p>(Argue with your keyboard 😅)</p><p><br/></p><p>Just as <strong>firstborns</strong> are called the <strong>womb openers</strong>, we are referred to as the <strong>womb closers.</strong></p><p><br/></p><p>Let’s not divert… the question still remains:</p><p><strong>Why do people think less of lastborns?</strong></p><p>Why is it a must for us to be a maid in my own father’s house?</p><p>Why call us lazy and manipulators?</p><p><br/></p><p>Do people really understand the burden that comes with being a lastborn?</p><p>Do they understand what it means to be forced to withhold our opinions and just do as we’re told?</p><p>The pain that comes with comparison-being compared to our older siblings?</p><p>The pain of being silently hated by our elder ones because they feel they “do it all,” and the youngest “has it easy.”</p><p><br/></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">They forget to sense the rage we carry inside, because they are permitted to flaunt theirs outside.</span></p><p>They get validation-everyone hails them for being the firstborn.</p><p>But what happens to the lastborn, whose shoulders the remnants and leftovers are placed on? 🥺</p><p><br/></p><p>We are the last hope of a bloodline.</p><p>We “die last,” yet we’re expected to finish up or conquer what the firstborns failed to achieve.</p><p>We’re expected to be the curse breaker, the chain breaker, the pace setter-the divine equipment that salvages and puts the whole family back in line.</p><p><br/></p><p>Yet… we don’t even have enough bullets to fight all the wars like the rest.</p><p>We get little teaching and little validation, but more persecution.</p><p>We’re never the first option-we’re the last and least option.</p><p><br/></p><p>Can it stop already?!!! 🥺</p><p><br/></p><p>You still don’t get why it should stop?</p><p>Let me break it down for you:</p><p><br/></p><p>They say the youngest has it easy, but no one sees the rage we carry inside.</p><p>Most of us grew up watching the fights, the words no one can take back.</p><p>We’re the quiet observers-the ones who learned early that speaking up doesn’t always mean being heard.</p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">They call us sensitive or say we “overreact,” but they don’t see how much we’ve been holding in-how every outburst is just years of swallowed feelings.</span></p><p>They think we’re dramatic, but we feel everything deeply.</p><p><br/></p><p>We became the peace-makers…</p><p>The ones who never wanted to be a problem to mummy, so we don’t look ungrateful.</p><p>To prove our loyalty for being loved differently, we learned to fix everything-except ourselves.</p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">We carry guilt because we feel we have to pay for the love shown to us.</span></p><p>We swallow disrespect like it’s some nice dish.</p><p><br/></p><p>We’re left alone to fight social anxiety because no one thinks highly enough of us to place us in a <strong>boardroom</strong>-they believe we belong in the <strong>bedroom</strong>.</p><p>We learn to heal from things we never even talked about.</p><p><br/></p><p>We are forced to be the woman no one taught us to be.</p><p>Why do we only feel seen when needed? 🚶🏽‍♀️🚶🏽</p><p><br/></p><p>So next time you call us manipulative or too emotional, remember...</p><p>we survived storms you never saw.</p><p><br/></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Anways, let me clear the air:</span></p><p><strong>We are not lazyyyy-we are just energy savers.</strong></p><p><em><br/></em></p><p><em><br/></em></p><p><em>Keeyra_writes</em> ✍🏽🔥</p>

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