1.1 From a fiery pot the voice whispered: The people you seek to copy have seen the beauty of what you have and only seek to destroy it because it challenges theirs. There is mystery in the movements of a masked dancer, Look the world turns round and round you think this alien has all your answers but you are my child one day you will look for me, yet I only stay where I am hallowed and where I am invited with drums I go. The man who spits out the sweet morsel his Chi gives him because it is little has his mouth filled instead with gravel for who knows the various kind of beast that mother hen struggles with to provide the chick the little meal it has? See he comes to you speaking strange tongues; you will make a thousand issues out of a simple statement he has made. There is a reason the lizard nods its head each time it passes the homestead of the Iguana for her children now suffer vagrancy for the little compromise she gave them, the leftover the latter throws away becomes the prize of a wrestling contest between hers. The one you think has all the answers wallows in his own confusion and one day you will learn from him all you know is rubbish. The children of the tortoise and Iguana had a quarrel. Tortoise knew it had no chance in a fair fight so it made itself an armour of stone and told its rivals a smart tale and from its shell it watched as they slaughtered and tore each other down. You think you mourn for me but it is I who weep over you for the wails of a mother is never truly for herself but the fate which befalls the men on the path the child has chosen. I am your mother from this loins I pushed you out and from this breast I fed you with this hand I spanked you and with this I drew you near. My head was once oracle to you, my beating chest the seat of knowledge and the words from this lip you considered wisdom, a strange woman comes to you wearing opulent jewellery and fancy dress, you look at my nakedness and you turn around to spit on me. Remember this. #danalaeyar #timelesspieces #pellaria #bookstagram #writersofig #writersofinstagram #poetsofinstagram #thinker #poem #writerscommunity #african #africa #africans https://www.instagram.com/p/BmG-1kZh4HZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mhk955gnonsr