The Blood Poem by Johnny Psalm

This poetry is dedicated to my late uncle who got drown in the lake in the last Christmas Eve after the church service had ended. the mythical figures invoked, derived from both Africa and Europe; Nigeria and Greece respectively. I learned the former during a social media chat with Pedro moshood and the other during a personal study of the Greek mythical stories. The former figure played a very important role for the salvation of her people by using her issue as a sacrificial pledge to the sea goddess, and the latter sacrificed himself for his own selfish nature through deliberate rejection of proposition from Echo which led o Echo's death, the wrath from the gods and their curse and his doom, having fell in love with his own make which appeared on the surface of a lake.