The man led me to the water to pray, but when I got there I saw; Lava melting flesh off bone, Skeletons dissolving in acid, skulls with frozen screams making useless pleas to the sky, Toxic sludge turning the grass an unholy amber color. I knelt by the water to pray, but before my eyes … Continue reading In Search of Cleansing | by Zoë Gadegbeku | African Poetry