Exorcist.

Come, come distant drums

Consistent, insistent, persistent drums

Quavers in crotchets on hemi-demi beats

Breath feverish life into citified feet.

Voodoo, Hoodoo, Fetishist dream

Pendulum hips on a ghost tambourine

Voices discovered; manically raised

Panicky, Crazed; Sanity Depraved.

Fumbling, stumbling, crumbling limbs

Battering blinks steal glimpse after glimpse

Scorching hand of a spirit ablaze

Matching the heat of devilish gazes

Catch, catching, catch your breath

Shallower, shallow, speak less

Shivering ribs in a silent chill

Resistant drums are pounding still.

by Kirsty Bekoe-Tabiri