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Mothers Curse

You have undress my anger and made it bleed Look into my eyes and behold rages Nine months do i carried you in pains Then nursed you in hardship amidst tears Now you broke my heart righteously I picked up this dust in the dusk To alert my ancestors of your deeds. I curse you son, upon this mountains Shall labour night and day without bread Sodom and Gomorrah days shall be better than you In your day of destruction Your body shall fall like the walls of ancient Jericho With cheering of commoners I curse you and your generations for defiling my bed and Watching my nakedness, for violating your sister's body, There shall be no cry of a child in your abode In vain shall you labour in the field Watch my lips for judgement in dawn The ground shall mock your feet and fate Air far from the testament of your being Vultures shall devour your corpse on the last day Then no one shall cry, no one shall moan But all in merriment like the days of Noah The maidens of Ohafia shall be far from you Nkporo maidens translating your deeds to the air Upon your dusty roof shall rain be far from Never come behind not in merciful kneels Hunger shall be your companion Journey along with you in the forest of life You saw through me son biting my emotion You broke the law of nature with your hammer fist Look into my eyes and behold rages Nine months do i carried you in pains Then nurse you in hardship amidst tears

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