Pilgrimage: Part 3 of Idanre by Wole Soyinka

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We stood upon Idanre's columns and he fell, The  Iron   One,to  grieving.His  breast

The  crown  of  Idanre  Hill,stooped,pressed  upon By clouds dark with moulted deeds

And  accusing  forms


Union they had known until the Boulder

Rolling down the hill of the Beginning

Shred the kernel to a million lights.

A traitor's heart rejoiced,the gods'own slave

Dirt-covered  from the  deed


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Man's   passage,pre-ordained,self-ordered   winds In  reconstruction.(Piecemeal  was  their  deft

Re-birth,a   cupped   shell   of   tortoise,staggered

Tile tegument;)And the monolith  of man  searches  still A blind hunger  in  the road's hidden belly.


Idanre's boulder  complex  rose  before  us  and  he  grieved

The veins were dying in the Hesh of earth

Bled  of  all  lustre,the  lodes  were  crumbled

And  the  fires  fallen  to  ashes.Light,more

Than human frame can bear


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Set  fanges  to  a  god,control  had  slipped

Immortal  grasp.On  the  hills   of  Idanre  memories

Grieved   him,my   Hunter   god,Vital

Flint  of  natter,total  essence  split  again

On  recurrent  boulders


This road have I trodden in a time beyond

Memory offallen leaves,beyond

Thread offossil on the slate,yet I must

This way again.Let all wait the circulation

Oftime's acrobat,who pray

For dissolution;the chronicle abides in clay texts

And  fossil  textures.I  followed  fearful,archives  Of  deities  heaved   from  primal  burdens;Ogun

Sought  the  season's  absolution,on  the  rocks  of  genesis Night weighed huge  about  me


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And I walked in footprints of a god

Whose knees struck sparks to burn the night

Brushing rocks in self-rage up the hill,up

His hermitage in rockshields lost in cloud

Caverns,Outcast    Deity!


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