Onishe* 

Let me be the egg bearing the
stench of stillbirth
Let me be the blood bleeding before
the oracle
 
I may be the white yam ringed with cowries
I may be the lone voice piercing the
path of fear
 
Let me be the calabash
bearing totems at the cross-road
of death.
 
*The River goddess of Asaba people in Delta State, Nigeria.