My Father's Deity Poem by Emmanuel Joseph Olumakiss

My destiny they have loaned
to my father's deity
as a shrine server
There at Ugeneoma
Before Mmiri iyi;
the river goddess
Here I was told she's
the preserver of souls

Out of my mother's womb
I was brought to the
Njokujis Shrine
with lighting
A striking of thunder
Burning of incense
Guinea fowl
Young palm frond
A handsome calf
twice the deitys age

Evil spirit they sent
to accompany me on the journey
of destiny
They thought it 'd guide me to the
throne of greatness
In front of our foster spirits
came the assembly of our breathless
and fainted folks
Children and parents of our past generations
To lay to the heart of the shrine my dangling
destiny before the betrothals hand

All my life I must live for the deity to survive
Father it is my life you 've tied to the Njokujis shrine!
So I'd reincarnate your royal role
it is my future that's sacrificed
in the face of this foreign spirits
How do you think I will grow?

The Hebrew God I was asked to blindfold
Slay to preserve a lifeless one
Idols they called for years
have chosen to remain dumb
My growing up I've approached evil
while chasing good
Spirit of the dead they employed to monitor
me on a move
In my fathers house I face evil with a fainted face
Spirits of the deceased they awoken to fence
my future like fence.