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”