Title: ABIKU
by poetenoch | in writing, poetry, story-telling
ABIKU
I am he who is born; dies and gets born again.
Proud I am to give joy and trade with grief.
I am ABIKU; the midget of barrenness.
The ghommid of wickedness amongst couples;
On the circumference of banana leaves, I rest.
I who wander in noon with itinerant demons of cloud;
I am homeless! Yes I am homeless!
To feast on women with deaf ears to noon walk is dutiful.
When caught, I get marked by being burnt by men.
Then, I become an outsider in the angelic realm.
I then cease to be narcissistic of my demonic pride.
An object of mockery do I become.
I become banished as an ABIKU.
Then haunted with sacrifices to make me live long…
It tells a story about a demon of birth pang called ABIKU in Africa; especially in the YORUBA culture in NIGERIA. ABIKU is believed to be a demon that enters into a pregnant woman and then is born like a normal child but dies at a very early stage of his birth. some even as early as three or five days... then they are born again and then they die again over and over again. ENJOY THE POEM CALLED ABIKU!
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