A GHOST SET LOOSE ON EMPTY STREETS.

As I was travelling to the Pojulu Cultural Festival

To meet my beautiful, unknown Nyoka

Ruei struck without warning

I saw him wandering without a head

A ghost set loose on empty streets

I asked a bystander why he walked abroad

Leju drew near and whispered low

“They have released him to spread terror

On critics of the system.”

“What!” I shouted.

“How blatant do you think they are?

Where is the justice?”

And I broke down in tears.

Ruei heard us.

Without warning, he struck Leju from behind

And he fell

With his club, he forced his way toward me

I stepped backwards, heart pounding past its speed

Above, I saw the law wailing in the sky

We are brutalised.

Every face around was shocked.

Is there a system in Junubi

That can hold anyone accountable

Ruei raised his club toward my head

I lifted my Bible to block the blow

Expecting fire to consume it

But none came.

The Spirit told me, “Run”

The law is brutal.

It no longer knows a name

I turned and fled through Suk Jebel

Via Giada, swift as a mountain goat

Behind me rose dust louder

Than the combined voices of the Pojulu Cultural Festival

I told my legs

“If you do not carry me at full speed

You will not survive.”

We agreed to carry each other,

Like Lomoro holding Nyanlat in his palm

We ran with all our strength

And even now, I am still running

Running for my life

From the brutal law.

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