Obododimma Oha

Song of the Udu & Oyo

She rattles

Uwa bu ahia !

Sellers and buyers

Buyers of sellers

Sellers of buyers

He echoes

The goods of the good sometimes unsold

The woman of Umuleri seeking

The goodness of the goods

In the afternoons of loss

Iya, uwa bu ahia !

Again, against the gain

The cost of the bad goods

The sweetest vanity

What we have bought

From what we have sold

Takes us to the next market

The Road to the Stream Sings:

Oso mgbada bu n’ugwu

Tum tum gem gem

Oso mgbada bu n’ugwu

Our legs s/printing our destinations

On the wet sands of time

Our hearts answering to the call

Of the Headstream

Who knows not the way to the Source

Can follow fragments of clay pots

The willing waterwoman waits

To lift the last pot onto the last head

At Udenguma

Homeward, no word

When it echoes doom doom

The hill wonders

With parted lips

Under my hurrying feet

Oso mgabda bu n’ugwu

Tum tum gem gem …

In the Light of our Darkness

Someone’s sun rises

Someone’s sun sets

Someone wants someone’s risen sun to set

Quickly, and light daring darkness

Floods the streets of intimacy

Messengers of the brave

Befriend the grave

In the light of their dark passions

I have seen darkened suns

In mornings of mourning at Abagana

And now when darkness returns to chase

The shadow of the rising sun

I remember to light up my dreams

For a history of eternal struggle

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