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IFEGI-OKU (WEEK 14) - "The Rain Falls in Torrents" Part 1 of 3 |
WEEK 14 – THE RAIN FALLS IN TORRENTS, Part 1 of 3
The rain falls in torrents …
… on this fateful day when Fourth Wife
Makes good her father's words to Obi
The heavens simply part and out pours water
In sheets of silver and weight of gold
People run for cover – including the goats
The chickens and cows and birds and snails
The rain rips the branches off cowering trees
And turns shallow gutters into raging streams
In every household in Imo-che
Children run outside to lift the heavy lids
Off earthenware pots that catch nvene
Fresh, drinking water falling from the sky
*Amadiora's lightening bolts trace the sky
One falls to earth and finds Obi's yard
With a thunderous clap that deafens the village
It splits the forever-standing tree right in half
At that very moment, Wife Number Four –
Not having any children (yet) to do the task –
Is standing by her hut, the lid in her hands
When the mighty tree's spirit is split in half
The lid hits the ground as she doubles over
She bites down her lips to keep from crying out
The custom in her village forbids any woman
From screaming out loud in the midst of bearing child
About to uncover the pot for her mother
Ifegi-oku gapes at the splintered tree
Whose mighty strength had pricked her back
She bows her head at Nature's awful wrath
A sudden movement catches her eyes
She beholds Number Four writhing on the ground
Dropping the lid, she darts through the rain
God's cool downpour pounding her skin
She cradles Number Four's head on her lap
The woman's clammy forehead burns to the touch
She strokes gently the woman's belly next
And feels the kicking turmoil raging within
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*The god of thunder and lightening
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