Flowers For Ebun
(Isaiah Fortress)
Demola was an orphan and almost innocent about every thing until he met Ebun. Without a father?s house to leave behind, he clinched to his wife for warmth and purpose. Together they built their home on a foundation of poverty and of hope. With a promising job and two kids, Ade, their son, and Yomi, their daughter, the future looks bright and sure. Then Lilikatu stole into Demola?s live and a strange love took root, sprouting, then pounding, and pulling down the delicate structure of the fragile home with the raw part of Lagos city life. She draw Demola under the flood of its rottenness and blinding speed of the fast lane of the city?s lower life. Demola threw Ebun and her children out into the cold teeth of the night, but Ebun, resolute and unshaken, stood against the wind, shielding her children from storms and milking them on a meager income. She can hardly read nor write, but she can see and think, so she sent her children to school. Meanwhile Demola lost his job and the tide of his blunder staggered him through the alley of drunkenness and plunges him deeper into a tunnel which only Lilikatu knows very well. Demola woke up one morning to find the house he shared with his mistress empty. She has disappeared, leaving him with a fractured mind. He regained consciousness in hospital with no one by his sickbed save Ebun, who heard and returned to gather the wreckage and mend the pieces together again. But Ebun is crushed under the weight of a stooping love. She died without flowers for her common grave. Demola returned to the street, where his son, Ade, found him and took him in. Demola refused to forgive himself, and in this interior struggle, shreds of remorse conjured images of frozen faces, he withdrew and retreated further into himself, shutting out every light that dared to point the way towards tomorrow. His soul glutted on the past, and he said speaking to the wind: ?The past will not leave us alone...? So he could not reconcile the past with the present, nor give the future a chance. In this shattered consciousness, Ebun and Ade are one and the same person.
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