MOTHERHOOD



Thoughtful mind

Stormful night

Blinded the earth with a shroud

Raven black



Konwe on a visit to

Mortal earth in its

Haste to escape

The darkened fury

Hooted and forgot

To shriek



Akalamagbo in its

Astonishment stiffled

A laugh, ceased

To laugh



Wary of the night

Shivering was Igunungun

On its eggs



Daring the

Dark veiled night

To the dump-site

Went the Hen

Hastening her

Child's safety

Past her flew

The Owl -- messenger

Of doom

Incessant warning

Of the impenetrable

Night it was hooting



Neither right nor left

Turned the Hen

Thoughtless stormless formless

Death in ambush

Silently speedily struck

As child mother

Re-unite



In her present

Dying state

With her present

Dying strenght

Even in the

Dreadful deadly densely

Dark night the

Soil she scratched

Finding food for

Her child, her last

Very last

Mothe'ly rite.

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