Friday 23 May 2014

Article 4

Last month I read a news story
And it has forever been in my memory
Twas about a man lynched to death by his father’s tenant;in his own father’s territory

He was on dreadlocks
And a woman raised a false alarm“ he’s a thief, he’s a kidnapper”
and  within the twinkle of an eye, his life was at stake

24 years he’d been overseas: 4 years before this coming, he came 
but vain were the efforts to make him stay 
And when he did come back, none of his family knew

He screamed and cried out her name
As the crowd gave chase
And she used to cry; longing for her son.
But just as he never knew about her death
His mother wasn't there to help                                                                                         

a sad painful death he died
battered to death and then thrown out to the street
To be crushed by vehicles' wheels

As the Yoruba adage says
no matter how long the farmer stays
“To home is the return from the farm”

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