My Beauty is My Doom____Part 1: Adunni to the Sacred Groove

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I am *Adunni*
The daughter of _Segilola
The grand daughter of _Fajimorokun_
The great grand daughter of _Agbonmirere_

I am the goddess of beauty
The nightmare of married men
They sleep and dream of me
They think of me
Even while in the embrace of their wives
When I was little child
My father never wanted me to roam the village
Or follow my mother to the market
He was scared if I did
I may never come back to him
Everyone will want to take me home
Young men will want to die at my door
*_Yet that beauty is my doom_*

This is my story
I'm the saddest thing *_Eledumare_* has ever made
Misery is the wrapper of my birth
Loneliness is the covering of my cradle
Though beauty bought me a handful of men
Something mysterious kick them away from me

My last lover just left
The same way those before him left
He promised me the world
That he will die for me
A thousand times over
I do not want to trust him
But frustration and depression opened my soul
And I gave him my heart
But now that he has my heart
He tossed it into the flame of betrayal
Death is the only option left
History may end with me

So I took a rope of death
Heads for the sacred groove
_Fajimorokun_ my grand father
Segilola my good mother
Behold your famished daughter
A wretched victim in the hands of men
Coming in the rags of her tears
I have been beaten by the rain of love
I have been stung by the serpent of emotions
The venom of  their betrayal boils in my vein
All my lovers are gone
My beauty is my doom

I am *Adunni*
The daughter of _Segilola_
The grand daughter of _Fajimorokun_
The great grand daughter of _Agbonmirere_
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