Raymond Sigimet | Keith Jackson & Friends: PNG Attitude
The ancient fire burns
through time immemorial
smoke puts him in a trance
And he struts
And dances
And chants
He’s in pain
He’s in misery
Shackled by these mysteries
the pain pleases him not
His dignity that of a fallen angel
cast out from taboos and secrecy
To walk in the shadows and dark
too see things no naked eyes see
to cast and curse and command at will
Stick to snake
Night to day
Shape to form
He’s the devil
He’s a god
A misfit who once held high ground
feared by the powers that be
But now covered in ash and soot
Black soot, not of mourning
But of loss and banishment
Stripped naked by the uninitiated
Whose eyes cannot see the pain
Nor the powers he possessed
So he prowls with a vengeance
and leaves no stone unlifted
As he stalks and captures
his unsuspecting victims
The guilty
The misfits
The haughty
Only then he becomes free
Sin washed away in penance
Free of his pain and misery
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Michael Dom wrote, on PNG Attitude: ”
“This has the smoky, charred and flamelit essence of Steven Winduo’s The Dancer.
This Sorcerer may find a home at Ples Singsing.
Salim em ikam.
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