PANIC

Last night I went to bed really early after being caught in the rain and catching cold too. I have something I believe the oyibo ma would have a name for…everything is a disorder or some sort of sickness these days. I wake up in the middle of the night and find it really hard to get back to sleep, and that I’m sure isn’t insomnia.

Very well into the night….maybe about 2am or 3am, I heard voices screaming, or were they wailing?! Seemed like a woman and a couple of kids because I heard the voices clearly enough to make out their ages. Hearing them wail, I just said to myself “oh dear, they must have lost someone”. I imagined that the person was probably ill for a few days or maybe the mother woke the kids up to pee and found one of them lifeless…..these thoughts just kept me awake and worried for these people. I decided to sit-up for a while and say a prayer for them only to hear DIE! DIE!!DIE!!!DIE……continuously. I began to think they were attacked by thieves and were lynching them or something, but on a second thought; if they were, people would have come out and why was it only the kids that were screaming out DIE?!

When I listened closely, I could hear the woman shouting seriously, words I couldn’t really make out, but she was seriously screaming. Then I remembered an experience a friend of mine shared the other day on Facebook. He was asleep at about 1am and was woken by the voice of a woman on the street at that hour…..she was screaming out for help and suddenly started shouting “GHOST O”!...the next thing, she went into a prayer session while dogs in the neighborhood howled. With this sort of thought in my head, I started praying o….I was alone in my house with a four year old boy….who would rescue the other if anything funny happened? At that point, my “damsel in distress” started screaming FIRE!!! FIIIIIIIIIRRRRREEEEE…..HOLY GHOST…….then the kids would reply…FIREEEEE!

If I didn’t have the fear of being in the dark, I probably would have gone over to their house. Goodness! I was almost in shock of all the wailing, screaming and chanting coming from them.

Whatever it is they were praying for I’m sure they would have it answered…except if this prayer warrior is the same woman I over-heard the other day harassing a certain young man and cursing him on how his manhood would wither…..lol!