All of a sudden
The strange voices came back to me:
"If you are a man well proven
Turn your footsteps into symbols of truth."

"Symbols of truth?", I wondered
"Yes, and of eternal life.", they taunted, adding
"Match your aura with ours if you are bothered
Dollar for dollar!"

"Dollar?", I asked, confused like a seaman on maroon
"Dollar for dollar, sony, who ever refused?
You are in Connecticut, not Cameroon
And right here, right now, you are well connected."

Bewildered, I looked all around me
Then, heard chants of
The national anthem.(*1) "Goodness me!"
In the distance I saw the Mount Cameroon (*2) rising.

Higher and higher rose our own Twin Towers
All of a sudden its top exploded
And out of it came splashes of red hot larva
Epasa Moto (*3) had spoken!

Humbled like some replica
I quickly dropped down on my knees
Not knowing whether to bless Cameroon or America
In the end I managed to say: "My Lord and my God!"


EXPLANATORY NOTES

*1. The national anthem of Cameroon

*2. The Mount Cameroon is the tallest mountain in Central and West Africa. It is the second tallest in the whole of Africa, coming after the Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya.

*3. 'Epasa Moto' is the name given the god of the Mount Cameroon. The name which is in the Bakweri language spoken by the cvillages around the village means "Chariot of the gods". The Bakweri language is one of over 235 languages (not dialects) spoken in Cameroon.

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