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THE TERMINUS   End time comes for all journeys When every train must stop And for buses no other route to drive When at a terminus they arrive. As babies a journey began That persevered turns and rugged terrains  When at birth brought they no baggage  Now at departure had no luggage. This journey all humans must travel However various destinies maybe Like tourists enjoying pilgrimages That will never last all ages. Man's life a mortal journey The beautiful flower that withers A desolate life exit at eventide Only mourning dews fall on its bedside. Crack-boom! Crack-boom!! Sounded the traditional funeral gunfire For an elderly man of his kindred Whose age was close to hundred. The sick bed was his mortal end His right hand a victorious twitch Approved his legacies on earth Before he departed in death. Gone in the way of his ancestors Who died and live in death's wilderness That is never full with human souls. /POEM

/Etsakor Proverbs ETSAKOR DIALECT: 1. Orda orde kpo lor ghu ye alimhi apfer na tser la. 2. Elimhi lor khi apfer ni mha ye. 3. Eme gbe alimhi oder vhi agbor, khor vha gbe nabi uku ewor. TRANSLATION: 1. Everyone dies unto their own ancestry. 2. Elimhi  - (The Spiritual Abode of the dead) is the family where we return. 3. The veil which separates earthly life and the spiritual abode of the dead is.       not as thick as a film of smoke. MEANING:   Through death, man returns to his origins. The ancestry of man called alimhi  in the Proverb, is an abode of spiritual beings, where it is believed that man was created; and there, he came from.   There, it is possible to recognize related, previously connected or familiar beings. There is the eventual return of the spirits of the dead. This Proverb describes the location of the spiritual abode to be within the earth; and among the living! The only veil of separation between the kingdom of the spirits of th...