Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Snippet: A Book That Never Dies 5 (L I G H T S)

                                                   
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He knew one day
His brother would come and save him
From this torture of a place.
So he waited;
                                             For days, for months, for years
For centuries, for millennium.
There!
Hope was lost

He slept alone

Bathing himself with fear

And cursing his stars for having helped his brother.

The gift of helping his brother

Was forever in hell.

He had come to accept the fate

That there was no escape for him.

Not at all.

He was going to stay alone;

Till forever.

All what would keep him company

Will be memories.

Memories of which as time went by

Became distant;

Became fictional.

Imagine – love is disaster if it gets you into trouble.

So he stayed in hell

Growing back to his wicked soul.

Scheming,

Hallucinating

And hurting

That his wife could do this to him

That his brother had not come for him yet.

Ha! So after a very long time;

He built himself a mirror

And he saw to his horror

As to how much he had lost his beauty.

Indeed,

Hell was no joke!

The once fair skin had turned into

Indescribable black.

His long black hair was now short and dirty.

His white eyes were all red.

His skin was pale.

He was pale

He was the exact opposite of his oldself

 

Back on Earth,

Nyame had built himself a carve

Which he named

“Asieye”

Meaning burial.

He buried himself there

Thinking

Crying

Rejecting

And punishing himself

For failing his brother, himself and the people he created.

He built himself a cage

And shut himself from the world;

And not even the Serpent’s wife with all her powers now

Could enter.

This did not however stop the Serpent’s Wife

From trying to penetrate into

This Thick Walls.
Days
Weeks,
Months,
Years,
Decades
Centuries
Millenniums,
She tried to penetrate these walls
But failed on each attempt.
Her failure made her eager to plan
                                                On how to break these walls


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