Igbekoyi (Reoccurring Child)
’Sanmi-Ebora Ogunjobi
Often have you come
Deceiving the World
That it will be to stay
Like a good child under her mother’s care
But all in a sudden
You do disappear
Now, Your yearly burial
Has to end
And you have to stay
Because
“Igbekoyi” (even the bush refuses this)
Editor’s note: Archived from Nigeria Magazine, Sunday, 1 March 1970.