OYA

Shango

"It has been centuries now my love since Esu the devil himself ,took you away from me"

I never thought I would have survived life waiting for the perfect vessel for you to fill and came back to me.

Death has been so unfair to me, my love. it has failed to let me came to to you. it is always ready to vomit me out anytime I make an enterry.

I crave your touch and your body

that has became an addiction, that am yet to find a medicine for. I have searched all the earth

for a beauty whose body you could fill but still known was found.

Oshun, my love , I miss the way you say my name when I was completely and deeply buried inside you.

I miss, the way your soft body shiver underneath me in the moonlight. And there way your small hands touch me in places the sun , has never seen.

I miss the way you bury your fingers deep in my flesh, when I was inside you. But you left me in ruins and your sacrifice was too great that it has made me immune to death.

"A mad god" is what they call me now, because your lips are no

longer there to pacifie my anger.

I burnt them all alive but I still can't find peace. You have made me a half man when you left without looking bak, because you completed me. children can't stand me no more, because the grounds on which I walk on since you left is no longer good and fertile enough to grow food for their parents to feed them ,because your departure has made me worse than Osu (the devil)himself. Oshun ,my love you must came back to me, because my body craves for you. came and make this mad man whole again.

Because deep inside you lyes my sanity. Burying myself in the depths of your body is the only thing that can put out this fire in my soul. cried Shango the most powerful God alive ,whiles holding the ashes of his lover. The goddess of beauty herself Oshun. His cries made the sky's darken and his vein protrude showing a clear outline of his artery's as he

screamed causing a great lightening to fill the earth.

Shagon! Shagon! please came and take away my shame.cried Adeshola in the shrine of the most dreaded deity of their time.

she was out of options even though he knew Shango never helps anyone without taking anything in return. But at this point

she was out of options because is either this or a shame of her father returning her bride price .

which she was not ready to let him face.

know one has never seen Shango with their naked eyes before but her beauty attracted him

from above. He felt like Orisha(the God of God's the supreme being)has finally heard his cries of his lover.

He descended from the clouds in his great glory finding it extremly hard to take his eyes off the beauty before him.

"Rise my child ,for you have found favour with me".he said

"Thank you great God Shango"

" I know why you are here and your heart desires shall be granted but in return you must give the hand of your child to me in marriage,the moment she turns 18"

Adeshola was so excited when she heard the word YOUR CHILD. So finally someone was going to call her MOTHER.At that moment she did not care if she would be a mother for a day or a few minutes ,all she cared about was to saving her family from being humiliated by her husband the king .she thought to her self that maybe before the child would turn 18,

she might have given birth to another, so given her away wouldn't be painful . And since her husband had so many children from his other wives ,loosing one would be irrelevant to him. And more over people would no longer call her barren woman and her father would not have to suffer any humiliations in the hands of her husband the king

"yes ,great one".she replied with her face to the ground.

"stand my child". he said whilst flooting in the air , ready to depart from her.

A pot of ashes was poured on,Adeshola before she could even make it to her feet.

"You must never cut her hair and and she must never lay with any man."

" yes ,great one"

"Take " ,a string of waist beads shining like the sun fell to the floor. "l want to be the first to put a bead on her waist" he said as he disappeared into thin air making Adeshola scared

"Thank you ,great one" she said

as she run home feeling satisfied .