The Evening Lamorin was Murdered

THE EVENING LAMORIN DIED

We walked the bushy path in silence

The evening Lamorin was murdered

That was not the first time someone was killed

But the young doctor had just returned home 

From lands beyond the oceans 

Ladened with western accolades 

Making his fathers proud

His head was removed

And his private parts butchered

Fear use to be the colour of nights

But now, even the days are nothing safer

Then father said me, son

Once upon a time

Lies were told in secret

Innocence was the bracelets of childhood

Love was the bead

Around the waist of our youths

The grey hair of the elders 

Was their cap of wisdom

Peace swept down

From the seven mountains encamping us

Across our happy roofs

Cowries were everywhere

Like sands canopy the shore

Once upon a time

The wind bellowed with freshness

The rain showered with abundance

The leaves were green and the rivers clean

Hunters dance home 

With shoulders burdened with antelopes

Farmers sing home

With baskets full of yams

But the howl of life has cried

And the magistrates of time are blind

In the darkness of these witching hours

The feet of doom-dancers are gathered

To sway to the rhythm of our downfall

Could this be the price we must pay

For letting the hands of strangers

Draw the lines of our lives?

Could this be the punishments we must endure

For allowing foreigners define who we are?

The hands of the child

Are no more stained with dust of ignorance

But adorned with the blood of their kinsmen

The hunger for life has

Invited the tyranny of death

The elders are the ones 

Negotiating at the tables of the devil

Since kings have made pacts with lions

What is the fate of the infants

Who cannot defend themselves 

Against the selfishness of the "gods"

Now this land quivers

In resounding echoes

Of the thundering fall of the giants

And that is just the beginning of the ending

This is the conspiracy of the ages

That can neither be forgiven

Nor forgotten

©Olatuja Oloyede

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