Tuesday, November 20, 2012

A Memoir To a Priestess Of Janus 4


Your matriarch, yet again, assuaged your fears by pointing a finger at Aunt Maria as being responsible for your despicability and derision. Forgetting that her four fingers were clearly marking her out as being responsible – a failure as a mother but as crafty as the tortoise. Age had taken its toll and soured the wine, unable to even do the proverbial ‘omuigo’ – I taught you how to bathe your own offspring but that was not part of your job description. Your fiefdom was the streets and incessantly it called to you, an irresistible call akin to the man bitten by the wandering curse. The passport of Mallam Ilia pales in comparison with your tales and many woes will yet befall you. Like the priestess, you readily received the blessing of the HIV in 2009 and like a fool, you wore it like a tiara whilst it ravaged you. Single-handedly you distributed TB and achieved what no one had done in the past; declared a work free period for the Lagos call centre due to quarantine but like the bug, you flittered away like the moth drawn to yet others. Usman M. whilst consorting with you taught you a little bit that you swore by Allah that you would swim in the waters of adultery but only death by drowning awaits those who venture into those waters.

The church elders intervened but then it was too late, set on a self destruction course already, you admitted your amorous sexual relations with Dayo , Alex and Kola albeit in error but like the fool that goes wondering into the forest with a gun, you only shot yourself in the foot. Groveling on all fours like a beast in the pangs of birth, you came pleading for yet another chance but a million chances would be of better use to a fool than a priestess because your vision in itself is more than you can assimilate. Your task was to get rid of all the evidence gathered against you but you succeeded only in crashing a simple laptop. Your nightly offerings of juice spiked with sleeping pills only helped me sleep better whilst it offered you room to sneak out to attend to your numerous clients – like a thief in the night with the gateman watching you in abject pity. The undeserved gift of a car only made you easily accessible and it served as a mobile advert to all who waited on you. Otunba, you so sought after that even he took flight.

Lagos was your citadel, your headquarters, Festac town – your market place where your wares were so obviously displayed. Eve a helper sent from Janus, together you destroyed Chinenye’s marriage and most likely initiated her to your cult. Your nude pictures you sent as souvenirs to your online clients – a breast sagging but desired by the amorous, your vagina a sheath to so many swords but well lubricated by the viral load you struggled under. A free distributor worthy of mention by The Economist, to as many as sought you blessed  them, amassing an army of destroyers; Dr Bello rues the day he met you as will many others for your work is not yet done. And whilst you sit at the windows of your borrowed apartment and exhibit your wares, that which you have forcibly claimed will be taken away from you just like every good thing has been and listen ……….the baying of the hounds below you serve as a reminder that there is but one end to this. You will publicly ridicule the ones that bore you and shame those who have ever met you but the hounds are patient as they know that soon their bellies will be filled with your carcass. There is a way that seems right but alas only one certain end and that is your end. May God have mercy on your soul, o priestess.

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