How I became a goat (A true life story)
EPISODE 6
The next morning…I saw the woman coming towards me with a knife..to think I actually slept outside, me Tony…
Seeing her approaching me with a knife,I became scared,I thought she wanted to kill me,I refused to follow her.
She dragged me but I refused,she picked up a stick from the ground and hit my back..I cried out loud,I cried…
that woman wanted to kill me for my father.
She dragged me to the other side of the compound where there was a lot of green grass,I was actually hungry and I bounced on them…I ate grass,to think that it was testy and I enjoyed it without minding it was grass.
Even though I still had some human feelings and sight but I was an animal and I behaved like one. I was shading tears as I was eating..
I paused” for a moment
I remembered how my father would beg me to eat at home,after stressing himself to put food on my table I will still reject it and most times I ate the food while cursing and hissing at the food.
My father was a nice cook,I remembered how my mother would prefer his cooking to hers because he made better meals than her.
I miss my father I wept in my heart…how is he taking my sudden disappearance? how is he managing? How about his health? I was asking myself all this questions and I wondered why I’m just realizing the importance of my beloved father. “Truly you won’t know the value of what you have until you lose it”
I prayed that God would forgive me and give me a second chance.
I couldn’t recall how many days that has passed because I am now a goat,I can’t reason well again.
I found out the rope on my neck was gone and there was no one in sight,instead of running away for my dear life,but instead i went to the backyard and saw where they spread back of yam..I ran straight to eat them,I got lost into eating it that I didn’t know when someone came out…what I heard on my back was a lash,with a big stick
I ran with a speed of light,crying and shouting at the same time, ewoo…my father o
“Chaii a whole me Tony,big guy like me? Me that used to reject yam at home got beaten because of back of yam…because of back of Yam they want to kill me for my father” I wept bitterly as I ran to hide in one corner. Abiola this is all your fault,who sent you to my house with a useless solution o…I cried “
At some point the thought of running away had completely left me,I guess the brain of animal has taken over me with full force…I guess I totally forgot I was a human being turned to a goat.
Not until one faithful day,I was taken to the market. The woman that took me home,went to the market with me. As we entered the market,I remembered like a flash that I am a human being and not a goat…but i had no idea of what to do,I was of no use to myself because I couldn’t reason well as a human
But there,it came…my only means of survival,it was staring right In front of me and I can’t miss that opportunity or else I will die as a goat and render my father childless.
To be continued
By Chika Christina
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