The evil forest opens its diabolical
Arms and receives weak and effeminate men
Putrefying lazy and unproductive bones
You feel my heart with inexplicable fear
Demonic forest – where the most powerful hunter
Dare not approach your edge.
I shudder and a strange coldness ran
Through my spine any time
I see men, women, and children being
Carried away to your eerie bosom
Last night the gods declared
Him guilty because he was plagued with
A strange incurable disease
And he is not to receive a natural burial.
I was helpless powerless frustrated
The gods unleashed retribution on
His head and they are not to blame.
It was a pathetic scene when the old man
Was carried away with a swollen stomach
Clutching his mournful lute.
I know that I will also suffer the same fate
My heart is aggrieved
The torment in the evil forest is inevitable.
But I am not weak, lazy, coward and effeminate
I am strong, bold, famous and courageous
I threw Amalinze the cat at the age of eighteen
Look at my farm which demonstrate my ability
I have a lot barns full of yams
I have taken two titles.
The benignant gods have granted
Me wife’s and children
And I am respected and revered in this land.
Then why these painful thoughts of evil forest
He was a coward and the unfortunate happened.
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