OLUOKUN EPIPHANY (’88 Benin city) by Simpa Omoluabi
At age four I
witnessed the invocation of an Olokun
He the devotee
that invoked the divinity
Was mysteriously
made not to see nor hear the deity
A sight of divine
terror that rose ‘bout seven feet tall
With a shout
angrier than roars of angry lions
Vibrating like a
rattling spear just struck into the earth
Right in front of
the votary that invoked the god
But my eyes were
divinely bespectacled
In some remotely
divine Oluokun ablution
Washing off the
blindspot off my eyes
To behold the
divine spectacle
Dilating my
pupils, widening my mouth in awe.
Copyright 2018 'OLUOKUN EPIPHANY ' by Simpa Omoluabi
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