Spoken word.

"Are You Fit?" – Spoken Word Version

One day, he was sitting in an office
with a social worker and his son.
Twelve years of raising him
— twelve years of love, guidance, struggle —
and now, questioned.

In the middle of the conversation,
he called his son Wale.

She stopped.
Her eyes narrowed.
Her voice sharp:
“Did you just call him a Wolly?”

Before he could answer, his son said calmly,
“That’s my name — Oluwale.”

He said, “Yes. That’s his name.”
And then he explained:

“Olu — God.
Wa — Come.
Le — Home.
Roughly translated, it means My God has come home.
Roughly — because your language
cannot hold the full weight of its meaning.”

“So here we are,” he said,
“you judging whether I am fit to raise my son
— when the very mention of his name
is me referring to him as my God
and asking him to come home.”

“In your language, in your culture,
through your frame of mind,
you think I called him a fool, an idiot — a Wolly.
But in mine, I am speaking holiness, love, belonging.”

“So tell me…
are you fit
to guide me?
To judge the relationship
between me and my son?”